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On February 11, 2015, the logo of technology company Nvidia appeared at its headquarters in Santa Clara, California.
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As the American tech darling continues its push into Southeast Asia, Nvidia plans to invest $200 million in an artificial intelligence center in Indonesia in partnership with local telecommunications giant Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison.
Indonesian Minister of Communications and Information Technology Budi Arie Setiadi said that the new facility will be located in Surakarta City, Central Java Province, and will strengthen local telecommunications infrastructure, human resources and digital talents.
Nvidia and Indosat declined to comment for this story.
Last month, Indosat announced that it was preparing to integrate Nvidia’s next-generation chip architecture Blackwell into its infrastructure, “with the goal of driving Indonesia into a new era of sovereign artificial intelligence and technological advancement.”
Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison is Indonesia’s second largest mobile telecommunications company after the merger of Qatar Ooredoo and Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison in 2022.
NVIDIA’s growing presence in Indonesia represents a broader push into Southeast Asia this year as the growing digital economy surges demand for data in the region.
In January, Singaporean telecommunications provider Singtel announced a partnership with Nvidia to deploy artificial intelligence capabilities in its data centers across Southeast Asia.
Singtel said in March this year that the plan would provide businesses in the region with Nvidia’s cutting-edge artificial intelligence computing capabilities this year without requiring customers to invest in and manage their own expensive data center infrastructure.
Southeast Asia has proven to be a major source of revenue for Nvidia. A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing last year showed that about 15%, or $2.7 billion, of the company’s revenue in the quarter ended in October came from Singapore.
In the quarter’s sales rankings, Singapore trailed the United States (34.77% of Nvidia’s revenue), Taiwan (23.91%), and China and Hong Kong (22.24%).
Revenue from the small country rose 404.1% in the quarter from $562 million a year earlier, outpacing Nvidia’s overall revenue growth and making it the company’s fourth-largest market.
According to Nvidia’s latest blowout quarterly earnings report, data center revenue accounted for the majority of its revenue, generating $18.4 billion driven by the global artificial intelligence boom.
— CNBC’s Sheila Jiang contributed to this report.
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