Firmus Technologies Plans 360MW AI Data Center in Indonesia Powered by Nvidia GPUs
June 30, 2026
Firmus Technologies Plans 360MW AI Data Center in Indonesia Powered by Nvidia GPUs
Australian AI infrastructure company Firmus Technologies has announced a major expansion in Southeast Asia, signing an eight-year partnership with Nvidia to develop a 360-megawatt AI data center on the Indonesian island of Batam. The project, which is expected to utilize up to 170,000 Nvidia GPUs with deliveries scheduled across 2027 and 2028, marks one of the largest planned AI infrastructure deployments in the region, according to a report from Bloomberg.
The Batam facility is being built in collaboration with Singapore-based DayOne, an infrastructure firm backed by investors including Coatue Management and SoftBank. DayOne has already been scaling its AI data center footprint, having recently completed a $2 billion funding round tied to capacity expansion. The scale of the Firmus project is significant even by AI data center standards: a 360MW campus requires substantial power, advanced cooling systems, and high-density networking to support GPU clusters designed for AI training and inference workloads.
The timeline for the project remains forward-looking, with initial operations targeted for 2027 and GPU deliveries expected to continue through 2028. This means the Batam site is not yet delivering capacity to customers but represents a planned regional buildout that must still clear key milestones including power sourcing, construction, and customer readiness. For cloud buyers and AI teams evaluating compute capacity in Southeast Asia, the distinction is important: while a 360MW facility near Singapore could eventually add meaningful compute resources, public reporting has not yet confirmed final power agreements, named customer commitments, or full delivery timelines.
Batam’s proximity to Singapore is a central part of the project’s appeal. The island sits close to Singapore, where data center growth has been constrained by limited space, power availability, and sustainability regulations. For AI cloud providers, building capacity on Batam offers an alternative route into regional demand without placing every new megawatt inside Singapore’s borders. Power remains one of the biggest practical challenges for the project, as AI data centers are expensive to build and difficult to bring online quickly, especially when GPU density drives up cooling and electricity requirements.
The Firmus announcement comes as AI infrastructure investment accelerates across the Asia-Pacific region. Recent moves include ByteDance’s AI chip deal in Malaysia, illustrating how chip access, geographic location, and export controls are shaping where AI capacity gets built. For now, the Batam project gives Firmus and Nvidia a large regional AI infrastructure play, but it should still be treated as a buildout in progress. If Firmus, Nvidia, and DayOne stay on schedule, the site could become a major AI compute hub near Singapore. Until then, the key developments to watch will be power agreements, customer commitments, GPU delivery progress, and the first operational milestones.
Source: techrepublic
