Nvidia-backed Firmus will build a 360MW AI data centre in Indonesia and expects $30 billion in offtake deals
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Firmus and DayOne will build a 360MW Nvidia DSX AI Factory in Batam, Indonesia, with 170,000 chips and up to $30B in expected offtake over six years.
Firmus Technologies, an Australian AI infrastructure company valued at $5.5 billion, will build its first data centre in Indonesia through an eight-year partnership with Nvidia. The 360-megawatt Nvidia DSX AI Factory campus in Batam, an island just off the coast of Singapore, is being developed with Singapore-based DayOne and is set to go live in Q1 2027.
Firmus will access up to 170,000 Nvidia AI accelerator chips through 2027 and 2028 via a revenue-sharing and credit-support agreement. The company expects $25 billion to $30 billion in committed offtake agreements during the first six years of the partnership, according to Bloomberg.
The Batam project will be a multi-tenant facility for AI-native customers, unlike Firmus’s Australian projects, which focus on hyperscaler clients. Co-CEO Tim...
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