22,000 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs Are Headed to Malaysia and the Philippines in 2027

Aolani, a Singapore-founded AI cloud provider, announced plans to deploy 22,000 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs across Malaysia and the Philippines in early 2027. This expansion aims to increase Aolani's total GPU deployment beyond 48,000 and its AI factory capacity to over 100 MW. The deployment is part of Aolani's strategic compute collaboration with Nvidia, though specific sites, allocation, project cost, and customer timelines remain undisclosed.

The GPUs will primarily support cloud services for AI training, inference, and other compute-intensive workloads for enterprises, startups, developers, and institutions in Southeast Asia. Aolani's partnership with Nvidia also includes a revenue-sharing and credit-support model to align infrastructure deployment with customer demand.

While Malaysia already hosts Nvidia-backed AI infrastructure, the Philippines is still building out large-scale accelerated-compute facilities. The Philippine government has released a $34.4 billion AI infrastructure plan targeting 1.5 GW of data center capacity by 2033. The deployment of 22,000 GPUs in Malaysia and the Philippines adds to the growing AI-compute footprint in Southeast Asia, where over $50 billion has been invested by major cloud providers like AWS, Google, and Microsoft.