Lambda Wins Deal Supplying 1,000 Nvidia Blackwell Systems to Hudson River Trading

On May 20, 2026, Lambda announced it secured a cloud contract to rent more than 1,000 Nvidia Blackwell systems to high-frequency trading firm Hudson River Trading. The transaction utilizes systems Lambda had already purchased and installed, underscoring sustained enterprise demand for Nvidia’s latest AI accelerators across multiple cloud providers. Lambda previously raised $1.5 billion following a similar Microsoft partnership, while Hudson River Trading remains a major Google Cloud customer with $12.3 billion in trading revenue last year. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal reinforces positive signals for Nvidia’s datacenter GPU ecosystem and multi-cloud availability.