GMI Cloud announced plans to build a $500 million AI datacenter in Taiwan with Nvidia GPU infrastructure.

U.S. cloud services provider GMI, or General Machine Intelligence Cloud, has announced plans to build a $500 million artificial intelligence data center in Taiwan with support from chipmaker Nvidia. The facility is scheduled to come online by March 2026 and will be powered by Nvidia's Blackwell GB300 chips, featuring approximately 7,000 GPUs across 96 high-density racks. The data center will be capable of processing nearly two million tokens per second while drawing around 16 megawatts of power.

GMI Cloud Founder and CEO Alex Yeh framed Taiwan's need for more data centers as critical "strategic assets" to support AI development, noting that the island's power-supply challenges can be remedied. He highlighted strong AI demand, with the company's GPU utilization "almost full," and stated that "you want to promote local ecosystems — you have to build the data center first, you have to build the AI cluster first." The project is expected to generate about $1 billion in total contract value once fully operational and will serve as a key pillar of the region's AI infrastructure, enabling enterprises to train and deploy AI models at unprecedented scale.

The GMI announcement reflects a broader wave of massive infrastructure investments across the tech sector. Meta recently signed a $27 billion financing deal with Blue Owl Capital to fund the Hyperion data center in Louisiana, described as the company's biggest data center to date. Blackrock simultaneously signed a $26.8 billion deal with Spain's ACS to develop data centers. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has previously referred to such clusters as "AI factories," and the company has announced deals in the past year to sell advanced GPUs to projects in Saudi Arabia and South Korea.

In the geopolitical sphere, President Trump has stated he wants top AI semiconductors such as Nvidia's Blackwell chips reserved for U.S. companies. Other AI infrastructure projects recently announced in Taiwan include a 100-megawatt AI data center project announced by Foxconn and Nvidia in May. GMI, a GPU-as-a-Service provider and one of Nvidia's cloud partners, currently operates data centers in the United States, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, and Japan. The company is also planning to build a new 50-megawatt U.S. data center and seeking an initial public offering in two to three years.