Firmus partners with NVIDIA on Indonesian AI 'factory'

Australian neocloud Firmus Technologies has partnered with NVIDIA in a deal to procure up to 170,000 AI GPUs from 2027 to 2028 to sell cloud services to AI-native customers. The agreement will be anchored by the deployment of a dedicated 360 MW NVIDIA AI factory campus in Batam, Indonesia.

Based on customer commitments, Firmus expects to receive between US$25 billion ($36.3 billion) and US$30 billion from committed offtake agreements during the first six years of the partnership.

At the core of the partnership is the integration of NVIDIA’s full-stack AI factory platform NVIDIA DSX with Firmus’ proprietary HyperCube liquid-cooled AI factory architecture, which was developed in Australia and co-designed to NVIDIA DSX blueprints.

The Batam campus is being developed in partnership with Singapore-headquartered global digital infrastructure platform DayOne. It will be used to provide NVIDIA-powered cloud services, with NVIDIA earning both standard product revenue and a share of the cloud revenue.

Firmus Technologies co-CEO Tim Rosenfield said the agreement will provide the company with the infrastructure it needs to scale up its Asia-Pacific operations.

“AI-native companies need access to scalable, energy and cost-efficient compute infrastructure to compete globally,” he said. “This partnership with NVIDIA provides AI-Natives with unprecedented access to the most advanced AI accelerators in the world, with the certainty, scale, and flexibility that best fits their high-growth trajectory.”

Image: Artist’s impression. Credit: Firmus Technologies