Nvidia and Firmus to build 170,000-GPU data center in Indonesia

Firmus Technologies announced a strategic compute partnership with Nvidia running through 2034, anchored by a 360-megawatt AI factory campus in Batam, Indonesia. The facility will house up to 170,000 Nvidia AI accelerator chips and is set to go live in the first quarter of 2027, the company said.

The Batam campus is being developed with Singapore-headquartered DayOne and will serve AI-native, enterprise, and independent software vendor customers — a different focus from Firmus's Australian projects, which target large cloud computing companies. Firmus co-CEO Tim Rosenfield told Reuters that the structure is intended to help smaller and emerging AI firms access infrastructure on terms that have typically favored larger players with stronger credit ratings. "This is actually a really material way to level the playing field a little bit to give the next a chance to compete with the big guys," he said.

The partnership is structured so that Firmus purchases Nvidia hardware and markets cloud services built on that hardware, with Nvidia receiving both standard product revenue and a portion of cloud revenue generated from the supported capacity. Nvidia will earn standard product revenue

Fuente original: Yahoo Finance (https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/nvidia-firmus-build-170-000-132222674.html)