Volato Group, Inc. (NYSE American: SOAR) announced that its Alignment Engine subsidiary has signed two four-year, take-or-pay orders with an unnamed large AI customer, totaling $1.17 billion in aggregate contract value, according to a company press release.

The orders cover the phased deployment of AMD GPU infrastructure at Alignment Engine's AI infrastructure campus in Ohio. The first deployment will use AMD MI355X GPUs, with a contractual start date of December 31, 2026. The second will use AMD MI455X GPUs, with a contractual start date of June 30, 2027. Both deployments will operate as dedicated, single-tenant GPU clusters.

The customer has committed to approximately $133 million in contractual prepayments, with roughly $40 million due following execution of the initial order. The remaining prepayments are tied to specified dates and equipment shipment milestones, with the balance payable over the four-year terms on a take-or-pay basis.

"This is a transformational commercial milestone for Alignment Engine and an important opportunity to build a long-term relationship with a large AI customer," said Chris Ensey, Chief Executive Officer of Volato.

Mark Heinen, Chief Financial Officer of Volato, said the orders "demonstrate a model where we can build infrastructure against long-term contracted demand and meaningful customer cash commitments."

The contracted infrastructure will be dedicated solely to the customer and is expected to anchor the initial phases of Alignment Engine's planned Ohio campus, which is designed to support AI training, inference, and high-performance computing workloads. The orders are subject to delivery, acceptance, service-level, and performance requirements.