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Nvidia-backed Firmus will build a 360MW AI data centre in Indonesia and expects $30 billion in offtake deals
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.
TL;DR
- Firmus Technologies, an Australian AI infrastructure company, is building its first data center in Indonesia.
- The 360-megawatt facility in Batam is an Nvidia DSX AI Factory, developed in partnership with Nvidia and Singapore-based DayOne.
- The data center is scheduled to be operational in Q1 2027 and will grant Firmus access to up to 170,000 Nvidia AI accelerator chips.
- Firmus expects to secure $25 billion to $30 billion in committed offtake agreements over the first six years of the partnership.
- The Batam project will be a multi-tenant facility catering to AI-native customers.
- Firmus, which began as a Bitcoin mining operation, raised $505 million in April at a $5.5 billion valuation.
- Nvidia's DSX programme facilitates GPU infrastructure deployment on a revenue-sharing basis.
- The project positions Batam as a regional AI compute hub, leveraging its proximity to Singapore.