Australian AI infrastructure company Firmus Technologies announced a major partnership with Nvidia to build a 360-megawatt data center park on Batam Island, Indonesia, a location near the shores of Singapore.
Firmus and DayOne, headquartered in Singapore, are currently constructing the facility, which is expected to commence operations in the first quarter of 2027.
Unlike Firmus’s project in Australia, which targets hyperscale clients (the largest cloud computing companies), the Batam Island facility will be a multi-tenant project designed for AI-native customers.
The partnership between Firmus and NVIDIA spans eight years, extending until 2034. Through an economic alignment model that includes revenue sharing and credit support, Firmus can procure NVIDIA infrastructure for AI-native customers, enterprise clients, and independent software vendors (ISVs).
Through this collaboration, Firmus will sell cloud services powered by NVIDIA. NVIDIA will receive a share of the standard product revenue and a portion of the cloud revenue generated from the supported capacity.
Firmus expects to generate $25 billion to $30 billion in revenue from the signed purchase agreements during the first six years of the collaboration.
The agreement covers the deployment of up to 170,000 NVIDIA AI accelerators on the Grace-Blackwell, Vera-Rubin, and Vera platforms during 2027 and 2028, making the Batam Island campus one of the largest AI infrastructure development projects in the Asia-Pacific region. It also significantly enhances Firmus’ AI factory production capacity in the area.
“AI-native companies need scalable, energy-efficient, and cost-effective computing infrastructure to compete globally. This collaboration with NVIDIA provides AI-native companies with unprecedented opportunities to utilize the world’s most advanced AI accelerators and achieve the highest level of certainty, scale, and flexibility aligned with their rapid growth trajectory,” Firmus co-CEO Tim Rosenfield stated in a Monday press release.
He added that this collaboration will provide support for small AI companies in highly competitive fields.
“We have been working hard to study how to narrow the cost advantage gap between large enterprises and emerging companies—large enterprises possess this advantage because they have strong credit ratings. This is actually a genuine way to slightly level the playing field, giving the next generation of businesses a chance to compete with large corporations,” Rosenfeld said in an interview with Reuters.
Strategic significance
Firmus’s latest collaboration with NVIDIA is one of the largest AI infrastructure deployments in Southeast Asia, solidifying its position as a key player in the rapidly expanding AI ecosystem of the region.
This collaboration also marks a significant expansion of NVIDIA’s DSX initiative, which partners with data center operators to deploy GPU infrastructure through revenue-sharing models rather than requiring upfront procurement—enabling a broader range of customers to access advanced AI infrastructure more easily.
Bintan Island’s strategic location is close to Singapore, one of Asia’s most dynamic financial and tech hubs, making it highly suitable for meeting the growing demand for AI infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region.
At the time of this transaction, the Australian startup was preparing for its initial public offering in 2026. The company was valued at $5.5 billion in a funding round supported by Nvidia in April.
Firmus Technologies was established in Australia in 2019, initially as a cryptocurrency mining company before transitioning into the artificial intelligence infrastructure sector. The company began operations in Tasmania as a Bitcoin mining startup, utilizing renewable energy and green power.
The company has repositioned itself as a dedicated AI factory, specifically modular, high-efficiency, and GPU-dense data centers. Firmus utilizes NVIDIA’s accelerated computing and reference architecture, with NVIDIA’s DSX aiding in simplifying the design, deployment, and operation of AI factories. The Firmus HyperCube, employing liquid cooling technology, is designed to align seamlessly with the NVIDIA DSX platform and optimize low cost per token.
In addition to its projects in Indonesia, Firmus expanded its AI factory footprint in Australia and Southeast Asia through Project Southgate, developing facilities in Tasmania, Melbourne, South Australia, and New South Wales. The company also deployed AI infrastructure in Singapore through a partnership with ST Telemedia Global Data Centres.
