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

Colleen Cabili

Mon, June 29, 2026 astatine 8:22 AM CDT 2 min read

Firmus Technologies announced a strategical compute concern with Nvidia moving done 2034, anchored by a 360-megawatt AI mill field successful Batam, Indonesia. The installation volition location up to 170,000 Nvidia AI accelerator chips and is acceptable to spell unrecorded successful the archetypal 4th of 2027, the institution said.

The Batam field is being developed with Singapore-headquartered DayOne and volition service AI-native, enterprise, and autarkic bundle vendor customers — a antithetic absorption from Firmus's Australian projects, which people ample unreality computing companies. Firmus co-CEO Tim Rosenfield told Reuters that the operation is intended to assistance smaller and emerging AI firms entree infrastructure connected presumption that person typically favored larger players with stronger recognition ratings. "This is really a truly worldly mode to level the playing tract a small spot to springiness the adjacent a accidental to vie with the large guys," helium said.

The concern is structured truthful that Firmus purchases Nvidia hardware and markets unreality services built connected that hardware, with Nvidia receiving some modular merchandise gross and a information of unreality gross generated from the supported capacity. Nvidia volition gain modular merchandise gross positive a stock of unreality gross from the supported capacity, the institution said. The spot statement covers Grace-Blackwell, Vera-Rubin, and Vera platforms done 2027 and 2028.

Over the archetypal six years of the deal, committed offtake agreements are projected to bring successful determination betwixt $25 cardinal and $30 billion, according to the company. At the halfway of the field is the integration of Nvidia's DSX full-stack AI mill level with Firmus's proprietary HyperCube liquid-cooled architecture.

A fundraising circular completed successful April, spearheaded by Coatue Management, valued Firmus astatine $5.5 billion. Nvidia has participated successful erstwhile Firmus superior raisings, making it an capitalist successful the firm, the institution said. People acquainted with the substance told Reuters that concern banks person been engaged to research a imaginable listing, a taxable connected which Rosenfield offered nary comment.

Separately, Firmus struck a woody with CDC Data Centers past year, targeting up to 1.6 gigawatts of Nvidia-powered capableness crossed Australia, with a completion skyline of 2028. Batam's proximity to Singapore positions it arsenic a imaginable determination AI compute hub, according to The Next Web.

Construction costs for AI-optimized information centers person been climbing, with facilities designed for high-density AI workloads reaching $20 cardinal per megawatt oregon much owed to precocious liquid cooling requirements — the aforesaid attack Firmus is deploying successful Batam.