Firmus inks Indonesia 'AI factory' deal with NVIDIA

Asia-based AI infrastructure company Firmus Technologies is partnering with NVIDIA in a compute partnership set to run through to 2034, with the deal anchored by a 360MW NVIDIA DSX AI factory campus in Batam, Indonesia.

The agreement covers up to 170,000 NVIDIA AI accelerators across Grace-Blackwell, Vera-Rubin, and Vera platforms through 2027 and 2028, positioning the Batam campus among the largest AI infrastructure developments in Asia Pacific.

Through the partnership, Firmus will sell NVIDIA‑powered cloud services, with NVIDIA earning both standard product revenue and a share of the cloud revenue on the supported capacity.

Based on customer commitments, Firmus expects to receive between US$25 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 DSX - NVIDIA’s full-stack AI factory platform - with Firmus’ proprietary HyperCube platform, a liquid-cooled AI Factory architecture developed in Australia and co-designed to NVIDIA DSX blueprints.  

DSX gives Firmus the playbook to design, simulate, and operate the campus as a single AI factory, aligning HyperCube's efficient infrastructure through a common architecture. This brings capacity online faster, improves tokens per watt, and strengthens resiliency at scale, lowering cost per token for the AI-native, enterprise, and ISV customers served by the campus, the company said. 

“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 Batam campus is being developed in partnership with DayOne, a Singapore-headquartered global digital infrastructure platform. 

Firmus stated in April that it expects to secure a USD$505 million (A$729 million) strategic equity investment, following a US$10 billion (AU$14.2 billion) debt financing facility.