KUALA LUMPUR: YTL AI Cloud, a wholly owned subsidiary of YTL Power International and an NVIDIA cloud partner, will be among the early adopters of the newly announced NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra instances, further strengthening its collaboration with NVIDIA.
NVIDIA, a global leader in accelerated computing, has introduced the NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra AI factory platform, designed to enhance training and test-time scaling inference. This advancement allows organisations to apply more computational power during inference, improving accuracy and accelerating applications such as AI reasoning, agentic AI, and physical AI.
The platform includes the NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 rack-scale solution and the NVIDIA HGX B300 NVL16 system. The GB300 NVL72 integrates 72 Blackwell Ultra GPUs and 36 Arm-based NVIDIA Grace CPUs in a rack-scale design, operating as a single, large-scale GPU optimised for test-time scaling.
YTL AI Cloud will deploy the Blackwell Ultra platform at the YTL Green Data Centre campus, a 500 megawatt (MW) solar-powered data centre in Johor. This campus also hosts Malaysia's first supercomputer featuring the NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip on NVIDIA DGX Cloud.
Currently under construction, the YTL Green Data Centre campus is the first integrated data centre park in Malaysia to be powered by renewable solar energy.
In a statement, YTL said it plans to launch its first NVIDIA GB200 NVL72-based instances in the early third quarter of 2025, positioning itself among the first cloud service providers in Asia Pacific to offer the NVIDIA Blackwell platform.
YTL Power managing director Datuk Seri Yeoh Seok Hong said that the group has made significant strides over the past year and is set to deliver cutting-edge AI cloud computing to the region, with the first Blackwell clusters expected to go live in July.
"Our collaboration with NVIDIA means that we are able to make available the latest AI platforms and solutions to Asia, ensuring that the region continues to stay abreast of the latest technological developments as we continue to move into an increasingly AI-powered world," Yeoh said.
