Ooredoo Leads $800 Million Zankore AI Compute Investment
Ooredoo Group committed an initial $800 million over five years for a 49% stake in Zankore, an Indonesian AI compute platform launched with Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, Nokia, and NVIDIA on August 6, 2026. The partners target 1 GW of NVIDIA DSX AI Factory capacity, with an initial 200 MW deployment planned for the first half of 2027.
Ooredoo Group committed an initial $800 million over five years for a 49% stake in Zankore, an Indonesian AI compute platform launched with Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, Nokia, and NVIDIA on August 6, 2026. Fortune reported the investment terms, while Nokia's official launch announcement set a target of 1 GW of NVIDIA DSX AI Factory capacity.
The first phase is expected to provide about 200 MW in the first half of 2027 using NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems, according to Nokia and DealStreetAsia. Those are deployment targets, not operating capacity available today.
A full-stack infrastructure venture
The partners describe a division of responsibilities across capital, local operations, accelerated computing, and networking. Ooredoo is the lead investor and platform sponsor. Indosat contributes its Indonesian market position and infrastructure, NVIDIA supplies accelerated-computing technology and software, and Nokia provides AI-native networking.
Nokia describes Zankore as a regional full-stack platform intended for hyperscalers, enterprises, governments, and AI developers. The official announcement also says the platform will use NVIDIA MaxLPS to manage power dynamically across the GPU fleet. NVIDIA says the technology is designed to increase usable compute within a fixed power envelope, though the resulting gains will depend on the deployed system and workload.
Capacity still has to be delivered
A gigawatt target places Zankore among the larger announced AI infrastructure programs in Southeast Asia, but the first concrete milestone is the planned 200 MW phase in 2027. Power interconnection, cooling, networking, accelerator delivery, and customer contracts will determine how much of the announced capacity becomes usable and when.
For ML teams, the unresolved commercial details matter most. The retrieved sources do not yet specify general service availability, pricing, tenancy models, supported software configurations, data-residency terms, or network topology. Until those details are published, the announcement is best read as a financed infrastructure plan with named partners and a dated first-phase target, not as a GPU cloud that teams can provision immediately.
Key Points
- 1Ooredoo committed an initial $800 million over five years for a 49% stake in Zankore.
- 2The platform targets 1 GW of NVIDIA DSX capacity, with an initial 200 MW phase planned for the first half of 2027.
- 3Practical value for ML teams will depend on delivered capacity, service availability, networking, data-residency terms, and pricing.
Scoring Rationale
The initial $800 million commitment and 1 GW target make Zankore a major announced Southeast Asian AI infrastructure project. Its practitioner impact is prospective because the first 200 MW phase and commercial access terms remain future milestones.
Sources
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