GMI Cloud to build $500 million AI data centre in Taiwan with Nvidia chips

By Wen-Yee Lee

TAIPEI (Reuters) -U.S.-based unreality services supplier GMI Cloud said connected Monday it volition physique a $500 cardinal artificial quality information centre ​in Taiwan with the enactment of U.S. chipmaker Nvidia.

The information centre volition travel ‌online by March 2026 and volition tally connected Nvidia’s caller Blackwell GB300 chips. The installation volition location astir 7,000 GPUs ‌across 96 high-density racks, susceptible of processing astir 2 cardinal tokens per second. It volition gully astir 16 megawatts of power.

GMI Cloud Founder and CEO Alex Yeh said Taiwan needs much information centres arsenic “strategic assets” to enactment its AI development, adding that the island’s power-supply challenges tin beryllium remedied.⁠ He said AI request has been ‌strong, with the company's GPU utilisation “almost full”.

“You privation to beforehand section ecosystems - you person to physique the information centre first, ‍you person to physique the AI clump first,” helium said.

The woody comes arsenic exertion giants astir the satellite are pouring billions into AI infrastructure to enactment rising workloads, creating a windfall for semiconductor companies including Nvidia, which ​derives the bulk of its gross from specified sales.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has antecedently referred to specified clusters ‌as “AI factories” and has successful the past twelvemonth besides announced deals to merchantability its astir precocious GPUs to projects successful Saudi Arabia and South Korea. U.S. President Donald Trump has said helium wants the apical AI semiconductors specified arsenic Nvidia's Blackwell chips reserved for U.S. companies.

Other AI infrastructure projects precocious announced successful Taiwan see a 100-megawatt AI information centre task announced by Foxconn and ⁠Nvidia successful May.

GMI Cloud, a GPU-as-a-Service supplier ​and 1 of Nvidia’s unreality partners, already operates information ​centres successful the United States, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand and Japan.

Besides the Taiwan project, GMI Cloud plans to physique a caller 50-megawatt U.S. information ‍centre, and is looking ⁠to question an archetypal nationalist offering successful 2 to 3 years.

The task with Nvidia is expected to make astir $1 cardinal successful full declaration worth erstwhile afloat operational, Yeh said.

Initial customers for the ⁠Taiwan AI mill see Nvidia itself, cyber-security steadfast Trend Micro, electronics shaper Wistron, Chunghwa System Integration, data-‌infrastructure supplier VAST Data, and concern solutions steadfast TECO.

(Reporting by Wen-Yee Lee;‌ Editing by Brenda Goh and Lincoln Feast.)