Nvidia cooperates with Yang Zhongli Electric Power to build AI infrastructure in Malaysia in the middle of next year

CTOnews.com December 10, Malaysia's energy utility Yang Zhongli Electric Power (YTL Power) has partnered with Nvidia to build AI infrastructure in Malaysia, with the first phase expected to be operational in mid-2024.

It is understood that Yang Zhongli will deploy Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU in the data center and use NVIDIA AI Enterprise software to simplify the production of AI. NVIDIA AI Enterprise includes NVIDIA NeMo, an end-to-end cloud native framework for building, customizing, and deploying generative AI models from anywhere.

The AI infrastructure will be hosted in the ancient Yang Zhongli Green data Center Park in Johor, a 500MW facility developed by Yang Zhongli. Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim wrote on X that the investment in the AI data center was worth $4.29 billion (CTOnews.com Note: currently about 30.759 billion yuan).

Ibrahim said Nvidia's decision to invest in Malaysia is a clear signal that foreign investors, especially the world's technology giants, continue to regard Malaysia as the preferred investment destination in the region.