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

GMI Cloud, a cloud service provider based in the USA, 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 will operate on Nvidia’s latest Blackwell GB300 chips. The facility will house 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 about 16 megawatts of energy.

GMI Cloud Founder and CEO Alex Yeh stated that Taiwan needs more data centers to support the development of artificial intelligence and indicated that the island's energy supply problems could be addressed. He expressed that his company's GPU usage rates are almost at full capacity.

Yeh said, "If you want to encourage local ecosystems, you must first build the data centers; you must first build the AI cluster."

This investment comes at a time when technology giants around the world are investing billions of dollars into 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 contracts to sell their most advanced GPUs to projects in places like 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 by Foxconn and Nvidia in May.

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

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