GMI Cloud is establishing a $500 million AI data center in Taiwan.

GMI Cloud, a cloud services provider based in the US, announced that it will build an artificial intelligence data center in Taiwan with an investment of 500 million dollars. This project will be realized with the support of leading chip manufacturers such as Nvidia.

The new data center is set to go live in March 2026, and it will operate on Nvidia’s latest Blackwell GB300 chips. The facility will host approximately 7,000 graphics processing units (GPUs) on 96 high-density racks and will have a processing capacity of nearly 2 million tokens per second. It will consume approximately 16 megawatts of energy.

GMI Cloud Founder and CEO Alex Yeh emphasized the need for more data centers to support Taiwan’s artificial intelligence development, stating that the island's energy supply issues could be resolved. He noted that his company’s GPU utilization rates are nearly full.

Yeh said, "If you want to promote local ecosystems, you must first establish the data center; you must first build the AI cluster."

This investment comes at a time when technology giants around the world are investing billions of dollars in artificial intelligence infrastructure. This situation is providing significant profits for semiconductor companies like Nvidia.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang previously referred to such clusters as "AI factories". In the past year, he announced agreements to sell the most advanced GPUs to projects in Saudi Arabia and South Korea. Former US President Donald Trump stated that the best artificial intelligence semiconductors, such as Nvidia's Blackwell chips, should be allocated to US companies.

Other recently announced artificial intelligence infrastructure projects in Taiwan include a 100 megawatt AI data center project announced in May by Foxconn and Nvidia.

GMI Cloud operates data centers in the US, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, and Japan as a GPU-as-a-Service provider. In addition to the Taiwan project, GMI Cloud plans to build a new 50 megawatt data center in the US and is preparing for an IPO in the next two to three years.

The project with Nvidia is expected to generate a total of 1 billion dollars in contract revenue when it becomes fully operational. Among the first customers of the artificial intelligence factory in Taiwan are Nvidia, cybersecurity firm Trend Micro, electronics manufacturer Wistron, Chunghwa System Integration, data infrastructure providers VAST Data, and industrial solutions company TECO.