Leader in chip production Nvidia plans to set up a $200 million artificial intelligence center in Indonesia in partnership with the country’s second-largest mobile phone provider as it expands into Southeast Asia.
The The artificial intelligence center will be based in Surakarta, a city in Indonesia’s Central Java province, said Budi Arie Setiadi, Indonesia’s minister of communications and information technology, according to a CNBC translation. He added that the center will improve local telecommunications infrastructure and support human resources and digital talent.
In March, Indonesian telecommunications giant Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, Nvidia’s artificial intelligence center partner, he announced that he did “ready to integrate the NVIDIA Blackwell platform into its infrastructure to lead Indonesia into a fresh era of sovereign AI and technological advancement.” Adoption fresh Blackwell platform would assist the company “consolidate a paradigm shift in how Indonesia harnesses the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning to drive innovation, economic growth and national sovereignty,” it said.
Nvidia declined to comment on the plans, and Indosat did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The partnership with Indosat for the AI hub follows Nvidia’s other partnerships in the region, including with Singapore’s Singtel, which announced in slow January that it was working with Nvidia on accelerate the development and availability of artificial intelligence in the country. Nvidia third quarter results showed that $2.7 billion, or 15% of its revenue in the quarter, came from Singapore.
The chipmaker is the first in the semiconductor industry to do so reach a market capitalization of USD 2 trillion earlier this year, it surpassed Wall Street expectations when it reported fourth-quarter revenue of $22 billion, up nearly 270% from a year earlier. Its growth was mainly due to, among others, H100 chips wanted that power AI chatbots like ChatGPT. At the company’s annual GPU technology conference in March Nvidia presented the fresh Blackwell platformincluding the fresh B200 chip, which delivers faster and more powerful capabilities than its predecessor.
