After meeting the media at the round table event, NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang went straight to meet Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim at Putrajaya. There, he and YTL Power announced that the two companies will be collaborating to build new AI infrastructures right here in Malaysia.
The announcement was made at Seri Perdana, with the attendance of Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz, Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry (Miti) and Dato’ Yeoh Seok Hong, Managing Director of YTL Power International Berhad.
The investment is valued at RM 20 Billion, with YTL Power to deploy NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs at the company’s data centres. YTL Power will also use NVIDIA AI Enterprise software to streamline production AI. The deployment will include NVIDIA NeMo, an end-to-end, cloud-native framework for building, customising, and deploying generative AI models from anywhere.
The AI infrastructure will be hosted in the YTL Green Data Center Park in Kulai, Johor, a 500 MW facility developed by YTL that will be uniquely powered by an equivalent amount of on-site solar energy. YTL Communications Sdn Bhd, the telecommunications subsidiary of YTL which runs YES 5G, will own and manage the AI infrastructure that will provide AI computing services to the nation.
Tengku Zafrul, speaking after the visit, said, “We welcome partnerships such as the one between YTL and NVIDIA, exactly the kind of strategic collaborations targeted by our New Industrial Master Plan 2030. By offering supercomputing cloud services and leveraging AI to power innovations, such partnerships enhance our economic complexity, paving the way for us to become a high-technology and high-income nation while further positioning Malaysia as a top investment destination.”
“Malaysia is embracing AI to enhance jobs, drive competitiveness, and supercharge innovation,” said Raymond Teh, Senior Vice President of the Asia-Pacific region at NVIDIA. “This collaboration will help deliver advanced AI computing infrastructure to enable Malaysia to build its LLMs and power the country’s next wave of generative AI applications.”
NVIDIA H100 GPUs deliver industry-leading generative AI and can speed up large language models (LLMs) by an incredible 30X compared with the previous-generation GPUs.
