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Firmus is partnering with Nvidia on a major AI factory campus in Batam, being developed with DayOne, with up to 170,000 Nvidia accelerators planned through 2028.
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Firmus Technologies is expanding its AI factory footprint into Indonesia with a planned 360MW Nvidia DSX AI Factory campus in Batam, backed by a compute partnership with Nvidia running through 2034.
The Batam campus is being developed with Singapore-headquartered DayOne.
Under the agreement, Firmus will procure Nvidia infrastructure to support cloud services for AI-native companies, enterprises, and independent software vendors.
The company said the structure is designed to give customers access to Nvidia-powered compute without requiring them to directly underwrite large-scale infrastructure commitments.
The partnership uses a revenue-sharing and credit-support model. Firmus will sell cloud services built on Nvidia infrastructure, while Nvidia will receive product revenue as well as a share of revenue from the supported cloud capacity.
The agreement covers up to 170,000 Nvidia AI accelerators across the Grace Blackwell, Vera Rubin and Vera platforms through 2027 and 2028. Firmus said the scale of the deployment would make the Batam campus one of the largest AI infrastructure projects in the Asia Pacific.
The company expects to receive between US$25 billion and US$30 billion from committed offtake agreements over the first six years of the partnership, based on existing customer commitments.
The Batam project also marks a significant expansion of Firmus’ regional AI Factory capacity, as demand for accelerated compute continues to reshape data centre development across the Asia Pacific.
“AI-Native companies need access to scalable, energy and cost-efficient compute infrastructure to compete globally,” said Tim Rosenfield, Co-CEO of Firmus Technologies. “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.”
The partnership will combine Nvidia DSX, Nvidia’s full-stack AI factory platform, with Firmus’ HyperCube platform, a liquid-cooled AI factory architecture developed in Australia and designed around Nvidia DSX blueprints.
Firmus said DSX will support the design, simulation, and operation of the Batam campus as a single AI factory, using a common architecture across the site. The company said this is intended to help bring capacity online faster, improve power efficiency, and strengthen resilience at scale.
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