Australian cloud startup Firmus to deploy 170,000 NVIDIA GPUs in Indonesian AI factory

The global AI infrastructure race just found another gear. Australian cloud provider Firmus is building a 360MW AI data center on the Indonesian island of Batam — and it plans to fill it with 170,000 NVIDIA GPUs.

Firmus, an emerging AI cloud service provider, is developing the facility in partnership with DayOne. The project, branded as an NVIDIA DSX liquid-cooled AI factory, represents one of the largest single-site GPU deployments announced to date.

The chips come through a strategic partnership with NVIDIA that runs through 2034. Over the next two years, NVIDIA will deliver multiple generations of hardware — starting with Grace Blackwell, followed by Vera Rubin and Vera — totaling 170,000 GPUs.

The financial numbers are correspondingly large. Firmus expects its first six years of committed off-take agreements to generate between $25 billion and $30 billion in revenue. NVIDIA was also a conditional participant in Firmus’s equity financing round this April.

What makes this project notable is the location. Batam, an island just south of Singapore, has been positioning itself as a Southeast Asian data center hub. A 360MW power allocation signals serious long-term investment in the region’s AI infrastructure. Firmus estimates its deals with NVIDIA and off-take partners could sustain the facility through at least 2034, with expansion options that could push capacity even higher.