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US company steps up AI investment in Southeast Asia

The US chip manufacture Nvidia is planning to build a 200 million USD artificial intelligence (AI) centre in Indonesia as part of its push into Southeast Asia.
Hanoi (VNA) – The US chip manufacture Nvidia is planning to build a 200million USD artificial intelligence (AI) centre in Indonesia as part of itspush into Southeast Asia.

Asreported by CNBC, according to Indonesia's Communication and InformationTechnology Minister, Budi Arie Setiadi, the new facility will be based in thecity of Surakarta in the Central Java province and will bolster localtelecommunications infrastructure, human resources, and digital talent.

Thisis the first in joint project between Nvidia and Indonesia’s telcogiant Indosat Ooredoo Hutchiso.

In January, Singapore telco provider Singtel announced its partnership withNvidia to deploy AI capabilities in its data centres across Southeast Asia.

Singtelsaid in March that the initiative would provide businesses in the region withaccess to Nvidia’s AI computing power by this year, without the need forclients to invest in and manage their own expensive data center infrastructure.

SoutheastAsia has proved to be a major revenue driver for Nvidia. A US Securities andExchange Commission filing last year showed that about 15% or 2.7 billion USD ofthe company’s revenue for the quarter ended October came from Singapore./.
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