Nvidia and Firmus Plan 360MW AI Factory with 170,000 GPUs in Indonesia
NVDA•Nvidia and Firmus will build a 360MW AI factory in Batam, Indonesia, with 170,000 Nvidia accelerators operational by Q1 2027. The partnership spans through 2034, entails $25–30B offtake over six years, and gives Nvidia hardware sales plus cloud-revenue shares.
1. Partnership Overview
Nvidia and Firmus Technologies have formed a strategic compute partnership through 2034 to build a 360-megawatt AI factory campus in Batam, Indonesia, aimed at serving AI-native enterprises, independent software vendors and emerging firms.
2. Facility Technology and Capacity
The Batam campus will house up to 170,000 Nvidia AI accelerator chips and integrate Nvidia’s DSX full-stack AI factory platform with Firmus’s proprietary HyperCube liquid-cooled architecture to support high-density AI workloads.
3. Financial Structure
Initial offtake agreements over the first six years are projected at $25 billion to $30 billion, with Nvidia earning standard hardware product revenue and a share of the campus’s cloud services revenue.
4. Timeline and Strategic Impact
Construction is underway with operations set to begin in the first quarter of 2027, positioning Batam as a regional AI compute hub and enabling smaller AI firms to access advanced infrastructure on competitive terms.
