Bringing continuous risk intelligence to AI infrastructure procurement.

London, UK – July 22 – Canopy Compute, the AI infrastructure brokerage and GPU futures marketplace, today announced a strategic partnership with Azraq, an AI-powered risk intelligence platform built for digital infrastructure. The partnership will see Canopy integrate Azraq’s risk scoring and continuous monitoring into its marketplace product, making risk transparency and resilience a core part of how AI infrastructure is procured, financed, and delivered.

Canopy operates a compute marketplace that facilitates the procurement and management of GPU and AI compute infrastructure through standardised forward contracts. By aggregating demand from enterprise buyers and matching it with capacity from infrastructure providers, Canopy helps buyers secure price certainty, guaranteed capacity, and access to vetted supply in a structurally constrained market. Azraq complements that model with proprietary risk intelligence that monitors and quantifies execution, operational, and market risks across data centre and compute infrastructure projects.

“The AI economy does not just need more capacity. It needs infrastructure that can be trusted by buyers, suppliers, insurers, and capital providers,” said James Marks, Founder and CEO of Canopy Compute. “By integrating Azraq’s risk scoring and ongoing monitoring into our product, we are giving the market a clearer, more transparent way to assess the underlying infrastructure behind AI compute contracts.”

Through the partnership, Canopy suppliers and sites can be assessed using Azraq’s risk intelligence capabilities, including near-real-time risk reporting, probabilistic modelling, and continuous monitoring across the asset lifecycle. The intent is to create a standardised, shareable view of infrastructure risk that can support supplier onboarding, buyer diligence, and engagement with lenders, private equity, and insurers. This is especially relevant as AI clusters are deployed over time and buyers increasingly need visibility into whether underlying infrastructure is progressing in line with project milestones and delivery timelines.

For GPUaaS providers and data centre suppliers, the partnership is designed to reduce the overall risk profile of projects brought to market through Canopy. A clearer and more consistent view of site-level and supplier-level risk can help support better insurance outcomes, stronger financing conversations, and more confidence from enterprise customers procuring long-dated AI infrastructure commitments. In practice, this means suppliers can present not just capacity and pricing, but a more defensible trust and resilience story around the infrastructure itself.

“AI infrastructure is becoming a capital markets product as much as a technical one,” said Alexandra Coleman, Founder and CEO of Azraq. “The market needs dynamic risk intelligence that keeps pace with how data centres are financed, built, and operated. Working with Canopy allows that risk intelligence to sit much closer to the point of procurement, where it can create confidence for suppliers, buyers, and financial stakeholders alike.”

For enterprise buyers, the partnership adds a more transparent end-to-end view of infrastructure delivery behind the compute they are procuring. Rather than evaluating suppliers on headline capacity alone, buyers can gain access to structured risk insight on the sites and assets supporting their AI deployments. That makes it easier for procurement, finance, and risk teams to assess resilience, compare options, and track infrastructure build-out against chosen timelines.

The partnership also reflects a broader shift in the market, where AI infrastructure is increasingly being evaluated through the lens of finance, insurance, and long-duration risk management rather than purely technical procurement. As demand for data centre insurance and AI infrastructure financing grows, standardised risk intelligence becomes more important to how projects are priced, underwritten, and approved. By combining Canopy’s marketplace and contract structure with Azraq’s risk monitoring layer, the two companies are aiming to reduce opacity and strengthen trust across the AI economy.

About Canopy

Canopy operates a marketplace for GPU and AI compute capacity, enabling enterprises to secure future access to infrastructure through standardised forward contracts. Its platform is designed to aggregate demand, validate suppliers, improve price transparency and help buyers secure capacity in a market defined by physical supply constraints.

About Azraq

Azraq is an AI-powered risk intelligence platform for digital infrastructure. Its platform is designed to monitor and quantify execution, operational, and market risks associated with data centre and compute projects, supporting investors, lenders, insurers, and developers with dynamic, data-driven risk analysis.