# DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Bare Metal Server Concepts

Generated on 19 Mar 2026

DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Bare Metal GPUs are dedicated, single-tenant servers with 8 GPUs of various models that can operate standalone or in multi-node clusters.

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