Singapore-founded AI cloud provider Aolani is working with NVIDIA to deploy 22,000 Blackwell Ultra GPUs across new AI infrastructure in Malaysia and the Philippines, expanding accelerated computing capacity in Southeast Asia.
The companies expect the new deployments to begin in early 2027. Aolani said the expansion would take its total deployment to more than 48,000 GPUs and more than 100 megawatts of AI factory capacity.
Malaysia and Philippines capacity expands
The deployment is part of a compute collaboration between Aolani and NVIDIA. Aolani has been an NVIDIA Cloud Partner since 2023 and plans to use Blackwell Ultra systems for cloud services aimed at AI companies, enterprises, startups, developers and institutions across Southeast Asia.
According to the announcement, the new facilities will be built in Malaysia and the Philippines. The companies did not disclose the split of GPUs between the two markets, the precise locations of the facilities or the financial value of the planned deployment.
Aolani said the arrangement includes a revenue-sharing and credit-support model intended to align infrastructure deployment with customer demand. The commercial terms of that arrangement were not disclosed.
The planned Philippine deployment is notable because the country has attracted less large-scale accelerated computing infrastructure than some neighboring markets. Aolani described the project as one of the country’s first large-scale AI infrastructure platforms, although that characterization is the company’s own.
Regional AI infrastructure grows
Southeast Asia has attracted substantial data-center investment as cloud providers, telecom operators and infrastructure companies build capacity for AI and other computing workloads. Malaysia has emerged as a particularly active market, supported by new data-center campuses and investments around Johor and the Klang Valley.
In March 2025, TNGlobal reported that Malaysia’s SNS Network was working with NVIDIA to launch an AI cloud infrastructure service from Telekom Malaysia’s Klang Valley Data Center in Cyberjaya.
The latest Aolani deployment would add another large pool of NVIDIA accelerators to the region. Blackwell Ultra is designed for demanding AI training and inference workloads, including large models that require substantial compute and memory capacity.
The announcement did not provide customer commitments, utilization targets or a timetable beyond the planned start of deployment in early 2027. Those factors will influence how quickly the new capacity translates into commercial cloud services.
Aolani targets more than 48,000 GPUs
Aolani said the 22,000-GPU expansion would bring its total deployed GPU count to more than 48,000. The company is positioning the infrastructure as regional capacity that can serve organizations requiring access to accelerated computing without building their own large-scale clusters.
The expansion also illustrates the continuing spread of AI infrastructure beyond the largest global cloud markets. Southeast Asian countries are competing for data-center and AI investment while managing constraints around electricity, land, connectivity and access to advanced computing hardware.
Aolani has not disclosed the expected capital expenditure for the Malaysia and Philippines projects. The scale and timing of the rollout will therefore depend on facility construction, hardware delivery, customer demand and the availability of supporting power and network infrastructure.
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