Singapore-based AI cloud operator Aolani will deploy 22,000 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs across two AI factories in Malaysia and the Philippines in early 2027, under a deal signed with Nvidia on Monday.

The expansion would lift Aolani's total deployment beyond 48,000 GPUs and push its overall AI factory capacity past 100MW. Aolani has been an Nvidia cloud partner since 2023, and the new agreement extends that collaboration across Southeast Asia, starting with the two initial markets.

Aolani plans to deliver Nvidia-powered cloud services to AI-native companies, enterprises, startups, developers and institutions across the region. Rather than building capacity outright and hunting for demand, the company will use a revenue-sharing and credit-support model intended to align infrastructure deployment with actual customer commitments — what it calls a "capital-efficient path" to scaling its AI factories across Southeast Asia.

The commercial backdrop is substantial. Global hyperscalers have invested more than US$50 billion in AI-ready data centres and cloud infrastructure in Southeast Asia, according to figures from the Singapore Economic Development Board cited by Aolani. That spending has positioned the region as one of the fastest-growing AI markets worldwide.

Within the region, the two target markets sit at very different stages of development. Malaysia has already established itself as one of Asia's most active AI factory hubs, with the state of Johor — adjacent to Singapore — drawing heavy data-centre investment. The Philippines remains earlier in that cycle, and Aolani sees it as a high-potential emerging market for AI infrastructure.

Aolani CEO Nicholas Chia said the Philippine deployment is expected to rank among the first large-scale AI infrastructure platforms in the country, broadening access to advanced AI compute and supporting the buildout of core AI infrastructure across Asia.

"Southeast Asia is rapidly emerging as a key global node for the next wave of global AI buildout, and we are well-positioned to lead this," Chia said in a statement.

The claim is consistent with the investment data but remains a vendor-side projection; the 2027 timeline and the pace of GPU absorption will depend on enterprise and developer demand materialising across the two markets. The company has not disclosed financial terms of the Nvidia agreement or the specific sites for the two AI factories.

If the deployment proceeds on schedule, Aolani's Philippine facility would add meaningful sovereign-adjacent compute capacity in a market where large-scale AI infrastructure is still scarce, while the Malaysian site would deepen an already crowded hub.