The platform is called Zankore, and it launched in Jakarta on Thursday. Ooredoo Group, majority-owned by the Qatari state, is the lead investor, with a 49% stake and an $800m commitment over five years. Its partners are Indonesia’s Indosat, plus Nvidia and Nokia.
The ambition is large. Zankore aims to contract 1 gigawatt of AI capacity within three years, built on Nvidia’s DSX “AI factory” architecture. The first 200 megawatts arrive in the first half of 2027. Demand for that capacity, the company says, already outstrips supply.
Who does what
Each partner brings one piece. Ooredoo supplies the capital and regional scale. Indosat, Indonesia’s second-largest mobile operator, brings the local market and execution. Nvidia provides the GPUs, software, and its Indonesian foothold. Nokia supplies the AI-native networking that ties it together.
For Ooredoo, this is a reinvention. “We’ve been positioning ourselves for a good 36 months to migrate from a traditional telco to a leading digital infrastructure provider,” group chief executive Aziz Aluthman Fakhroo told Fortune. It is a move telcos worldwide are making as their core business stalls.
