What GPU buyers want and what operators offer

What this means

• Buyers. Term and size narrow the choice most. 22 of the 68 blocks with a ready date can start in 2026, but only 4 of them also allow 12 months or less, and 4 are 128 GPUs or fewer. Most operators sell long and large: 46 of the 53 blocks with a stated term need two years or longer. A request that can take two years or more, or a later start, meets far more of them. Send a request and we check it against the operators.
• Operators. Short terms and small blocks are where most requests are and where few blocks compete: 15 of 22 requests would take 12 months or less, against 7 of 53 blocks, and 13 of 23 start at 128 GPUs or fewer, against 8 of 60 blocks. Large clusters are where most of the GPUs are: the 4 requests from 1,000 GPUs up hold 88% of them. Send us your capacity and we tell you what buyers ask for right now.

These are the requests and offers that reached Ancapex, not the whole market: 30 requests and 75 blocks.

Where demand outruns capacity

We compared the 30 requests buyers sent us from September to 3 November 2026 with the 75 blocks of Blackwell and Vera Rubin capacity that 31 operators offered us and had not withdrawn by then. A block is one cluster of one model at one site.

• Start date. 16 of 24 requests that named a start want it in 2026. 22 of 68 blocks with a ready date can start in 2026, from 12 operators.
• Term. 15 of 22 requests that named a term would take 12 months or less, 7 of them nothing longer. 7 of 53 blocks with a stated term allow 12 months or less. None of the 16 GB300 NVL72 blocks does.
• Size. 13 of 23 requests that named a volume start at 128 GPUs or fewer; the median request starts at 72 GPUs. 8 of 60 blocks with a stated size are 128 GPUs or fewer.
• All of it at once. 4 blocks can start in 2026 and allow 12 months or less, from 3 operators.

Operators have the most to offer in long reservations: 46 of the 53 blocks with a stated term need two years or longer, 46 of the 68 with a ready date start in 2027 or later, and 29 of the 60 with a stated size are 1,000 GPUs or more. A small cluster before the end of 2026 is the hardest to find: 4 blocks of 128 GPUs or fewer can start in 2026, from 4 operators.

Large and later requests

Counted by request, demand looks small. Counted by GPUs, most of it is large and later: the 23 requests with a volume add up to about 21,700 GPUs, and the 4 that start at 1,000 GPUs or more hold 88% of them. Long terms and later starts are also where operators have the most to offer.

• Size. 7 of the 23 requests start at 500 GPUs or more, 4 at 1,000 or more and 3 at 4,000 or more.
• Later starts. 8 of the 24 requests that named a start are for 2027, the 3 largest among them. They hold 91% of the GPUs in requests with a named start.
• Long terms. 14 of the 22 requests that named a term would take two years or longer, and 7 of those are also open to 12 months or less.
• After the first block. 3 buyers told us they plan to add capacity after the first block, on top of the numbers above.

What the count of 558 shows

1. 558 companies operate GPU capacity for outside buyers, and about a third of them, 190, name an NVIDIA Blackwell GPU on a public page. 122 say it is installed; the other 68 only announce it.
2. Europe and North America have the most operators, 224 and 201. Asia-Pacific has fewer, 133, but the highest share with Blackwell: 55%, against 41% in Europe and 42% in North America.
3. Blackwell sits with the GPU clouds: 41% of them name it, against 14% of data center operators, and 73% of the GPU clouds that name it say it is installed.

Operators by region

103 companies have sites in more than one region and count in each, so the regions add up to more than 558. India is counted on its own, not inside Asia-Pacific, and Turkey is in Middle East and Africa.

Operators by type

Not shown: a number whose difference with the number beside it would describe one company.

GPU clouds (neoclouds) rent GPU servers and clusters by the hour or on reserved terms. Data center operators rent space, power and cooling for GPU clusters; some also rent the GPUs. Hyperscalers are the large general clouds. GPU fleet owners own GPU clusters and lease them out, often to clouds. Integrators and OEMs build or sell GPU servers and also rent capacity.

Region and type

A cell below 2 operators shows as under 2, and so does one more cell in its row or column where the totals would give that number away.

Blackwell models

A company that names several models counts under each. Installed means a public page names the model as available, deployed or in stock, or lists a price for it; announced means a plan, a waitlist, a pre-order or contact sales. A company that names no Blackwell model on its pages may still have one.

How we counted

• Who is in the count: companies that rent out GPU capacity, or space and power for GPU clusters, to outside buyers.
• Sources: each company's own public pages, NVIDIA's public partner directory, press releases and public catalogs, read by 26 September 2026. The regions of operators' sites were read again on their own pages on 4 November 2026.
• Not in the count: brokers, resellers and other intermediaries; marketplaces that list other companies' capacity; lenders and financing firms; companies that only sell hardware; companies headquartered in China, Hong Kong, Russia or Belarus; companies whose site no longer opens or whose business the sources did not confirm; companies whose regions we could not confirm on a public page (42).
• Counting rule: no number below 2 operators is shown. Being counted does not mean a company works with Ancapex, and it does not mean the company has free capacity.
• Demand and capacity: requests and offers that reached Ancapex, counted without the names of buyers or operators and without prices. Every capacity figure comes from at least two operators. Requests from buyers who signed an NDA with us are not counted; the figures were recounted without them on 10 November 2026.

GPU providers: send us your capacity. We show it to buyers without your name, and only with your consent, tell you what they ask for right now and introduce you to the ones you can cover.

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