GMI Cloud to build $500 million AI data centre in Taiwan with Nvidia chips.
U.S.-based cloud services provider GMI Cloud said on Monday it will build a $500 million artificial intelligence data centre in Taiwan with the support of U.S. chipmaker.
The data centre will come online by March 2026 and will run on Nvidia’s new Blackwell GB300 chips. The facility will house about 7,000 GPUs across 96 high-density racks, capable of processing nearly 2 million tokens per second. It will draw around 16 megawatts of power.
GMI Cloud Founder and CEO Alex Yeh said Taiwan needs more data centres as “strategic assets” to support its AI development, adding that the island’s power-supply challenges can be remedied. He said AI demand has been strong, with the company’s GPU utilisation “almost full”.
“You want to promote local ecosystems – you have to build the data centre first, you have to build the AI cluster first,” he said.
The deal comes as technology giants around the world are pouring billions into AI infrastructure to support rising workloads, creating a windfall for semiconductor companies including Nvidia, which derives the bulk of its revenue from such sales.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has previously referred to such clusters as “AI factories” and has in the past year also announced deals to sell its most advanced GPUs to projects in Saudi Arabia and South Korea. U.S. President Donald Trump has said he wants the top AI semiconductors such as Nvidia’s Blackwell chips reserved for U.S. companies.