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# Singtel bringing its GPUaaS to 4 countries in Southeast Asia
- URL: https://www.techstories.co/singtel-bringing-its-gpuaas-to-4-countries-in-southeast-asia/
- Published: 2024-08-19T02:47:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-08-20T02:49:26.000Z
- Description: Announces partnership with Bridge Alliance.
- Author: Paul Mah
- Tags: Data Centres, AI

Singtel has announced a partnership to bring its upcoming GPU offering to enterprises in Southeast Asia.

In a release today, Singtel says it is teaming up with Bridge Alliance to offer its GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) in Southeast Asia.

Bridge Alliance is a business alliance of some 34 major telcos. The chairman of Bridge Alliance is Bill Chang, the CEO of Singtel's Nxera.

**Coming later this year**

Singtel says it will launch its GPUaaS later this year.

- Will feature H100 GPUs at launch.
- AIS, Maxis, and Telkomsel have expressed interest.
- It'll be "among the first" to launch Nvidia's GB200 GPUs.

While Singtel has already made several announcements about its plans to offer GPUs, my understanding is its GPUaaS isn't available yet.

**AI data centres**

Singtel's latest announcement did contain an added nugget: A note that its GPUaaS offering will run on its AI-ready data centres in the region "from mid-2025 onwards".

The upcoming data centres are in:

- Malaysia (Johor - 65MW)\*.
- Singapore (DC Tuas - 58MW).
- Thailand (GSA Data Centre - 40MW).
- Indonesia (PT TDI Data Centre - 50MW).

That's a lot of new high-density data centres coming live soon in Southeast Asia, even as [Singtel gradually shuts down its oldest data centres](https://www.techstories.co/singtel-closing-5-data-centres-in-the-name-of-sustainability/) in Singapore.

*\*Groundbreaking held last month; no publicly announced name yet.*

**Live GPU deployments**

Of course, it is one thing to announce an upcoming service and another to have it already deployed and available.

As AI reaches a feverish pitch, one can't help but ponder if we are hurtling towards certain doom or a utopian society - I wrote about this [topic](https://www.techstories.co/what-lies-ahead-for-ai/) over the weekend.

For now, here's what I know:

- In Singapore, [SMC](https://lnkd.in/g9YiJ4ux?ref=techstories.co) has the largest number of H100 GPUs right now from its deployment at STT GDC's Loyang and MediaHub data centres.
- I've also heard of a massive deployment of H100 GPUs numbering in the tens of thousands of units in Johor, though I cannot independently confirm it.

Know of other large H100 GPU deployments in the region? Drop me a note.