ByJonathan Burgos
ByJonathan Burgos,
Forbes Staff.
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estled in the foothills of Mount Pulai in Malaysia’s southern state of Johor and surrounded by palm oil plantations, four windowless, single-story buildings emit a steady drone 24/7. This comes from powerful supercomputers simultaneously running cloud computing and artificial intelligence applications, some using Nvidia’s most advanced GB200 chips. Capable of processing 1.8 terabytes of information per second, these GPUs are housed in a 20-megawatt (MW) facility within a 664-hectare data center park operated by YTL Power International, the utility unit of Malaysian tycoon Francis Yeoh’s YTL conglomerate. Inside the building are three-meter tall fans blowing cold air onto rows of server racks interconnected by kilometers of cables.
