Australian data center builder Firmus is teaming up with chip giant Nvidia to stand up a massive new artificial intelligence hub in Indonesia, the company announced.
According to TNGlobal, the two will jointly deploy 170,000 AI accelerators — the specialized chips that train and run AI models — and are targeting $30 billion in revenue. Startup Daily frames the project as a $43 billion Indonesian data centre deal between Firmus and Nvidia.
Nikkei reports that the partnership will build a 350-megawatt "AI factory" to provide cloud computing services, describing Firmus as an Australian data center builder. The Jakarta Post reports the Nvidia-powered facility will be located on Batam, an Indonesian island near Singapore. InnovationAus characterizes the agreement as a new AI chip access deal between Firmus and Nvidia.
The "AI factory" label, used by Nvidia for sites built specifically to churn out AI computing power, signals the scale of ambition here. A 350-megawatt build, as cited by Nikkei, would place the project among the larger AI data center efforts in the region. The 170,000-accelerator figure reported by TNGlobal and 富途牛牛 underscores how much hardware is being concentrated in a single location.
For a startup, the numbers are striking: Startup Daily's reported $43 billion deal value and the $30 billion revenue target cited by TNGlobal point to a bet that demand for AI computing in Southeast Asia will keep climbing.
Why it matters: the deal shows AI computing capacity rapidly expanding beyond the United States into Southeast Asia, with Indonesia positioning itself — via Batam — as a regional hub for the infrastructure that powers modern artificial intelligence.