The Tasmania-based artificial intelligence company is set to build one of the Asia-Pacific's largest digital infrastructure facilities on the island of Batam, under a multinational partnership that includes global chipmaker Nvidia to woo AI-native customers.
Illustration of a data center (Courtesy of ABB)
Australian artificial intelligence start-up Firmus Technologies plans to build its first data center on Batam Island in the Riau Islands as part of its partnership with United States chipmaker Nvidia, a deal the company expects will generate up to US$30 billion in revenue in the first six years.As part of their eight-year partnership with Nvidia, Firmus and Singapore-based digital infrastructure company DayOne will develop a 360-megawatt Nvidia DSX AI Factory campus on Indonesia’s industrial island of Batam close to Singapore. The facility is expected to be one of the largest AI infrastructure developments in the Asia-Pacific.
The agreement includes the delivery of up to 170,000 Nvidia graphics processing units (GPU) and AI accelerators based on the Grace-Blackwell, Vera-Rubin and Vera platforms through 2027-2028, as well as sales of Nvidia-powered cloud computing services to AI-native customers.
