KUALA LUMPUR (March 19): YTL Power International Bhd (KL:YTLPOWR) said it expects to launch its first Nvidia supercomputer in Malaysia “early in the third quarter”, making it one of the first cloud service providers in Asia Pacific to make the chipmaker’s Blackwell platform available.

In a statement, YTL Power also said its Nvidia Cloud Partner subsidiary, YTL Cloud, will be an “early adopter” of the latest Nvidia Blackwell Ultra platform revealed by the US-listed chipmaker on Tuesday.

The newly unveiled platform is set to use Nvidia's latest series of graphics processing units (GPUs), with shipments scheduled to begin in the second half of 2025, according to recent reports.

“The Nvidia Blackwell Ultra platform 'will be deployed from' the 500MW YTL Green Data Center Campus in Johor,” YTL Power said.

“The YTL Green Data Centre Campus is home to the first supercomputer in Malaysia to deploy the Nvidia GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip on Nvidia DGX Cloud.

"Currently under construction, YTL expects to launch their first Nvidia GB200 NVL72-based instances early in the third quarter of the year, becoming one of the first cloud service providers to make the Nvidia Blackwell platform available in Asia Pacific,” it said.

YTL Power has made “tremendous progress over the past year and are poised to offer powerful AI cloud computing to the region when our first Blackwell clusters come onstream, expected in July this year”, said managing director Datuk Seri Yeoh Seok Hong in the statement.

“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,” he said.

Shares of YTL Power rose five sen or 1.56% to RM3.25 at the time of writing, giving it a market capitalisation of RM26.3 billion. The counter is down 26% this year.