Nvidia & YTL Power partner for $4.3bn AI data centers in Malaysia
First phase to be operational in mid-2024


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Nvidia and Malaysian conglomerate YTL's power unit (YTLP) are developing $4.3 billion in artificial intelligence cloud and supercomputer infrastructure in Malaysia.

Reported by Reuters, the first phase of the project is expected to be operational by mid-2024.


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With 275 acres of land earmarked for data centers, the park provides scalability to discerning data center players. The site is zoned for industry, and has access to national grid power and water resources, both critical for the data center operations.

Jalan Sawah is between Pekan Nanas and Kulai right?


The project will be hosted in a data center at YTL's data center park in Kulai, Johor. Here, the companies will develop Malaysia's fastest supercomputers using Nvidia's AI chips. YTL will also use Nvidia's AI cloud computing platform to build a large language model in Malay.

"Malaysia is an important hub for Southeast Asia computing infrastructure, which requires access to land, facilities, and power, and YTL could play a great role in that," said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, prior to the announcement of the partnership.

Prime Minister Anwar said of the agreement: "The decision to invest in Malaysia is a clear signal that foreign investors, especially technology giants, continue to make the country a primary destination of choice in this region."

The YTL data center park was first announced in August 2022 and is planned to eventually be a 500MW campus. Singaporean IT firm Sea is reported to be the anchor tenant for the development, and GDS is also developing a data center on the campus.

Earlier this month, DCD reported that 15 percent of Nvidia's Q3 revenue came from Singapore, notably making the city-state on Malaysia's border the company's fourth biggest customer globally. Per capita, Singapore spent $600 on Nvidia chips, compared to $60 in the US and $3 in China.

It is unclear what has led to this huge demand, be it shell companies using the location, or that Singapore is developing products that will be sent elsewhere.

This post has been edited by plouffle0789: Mar 4 2024, 03:25 AM

YTL claims education ministry breached 1BestariNet Contract

For the total project of 1BestariNet, including Phase 1 and Phase 2, the government had paid about RM3.8 billion to YTL Communications.






YTL Communications was awarded to commence Phase 1 of 1BestariNet from

Dec 13, 2011, to June 30, 2016,


including the seven times extension. The telco also had been awarded Phase 2,

which was extended between July 1, 2016, and June 30, 2019.


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The access Wing refers to is of course a crucial part of the 1BestariNet initiative where each of the nation’s 10,000 schools, from those in the heart of the busiest cities to those in the rural heartlands, will have access to a 4MB wireless broadband network through YTL Comms’ WiMAX-based YES 4G network. As of end-December 2012, 70% of the nation’s schools have been connected, he says.

The cloud-based platform is the Frog VLE (Virtual Learning Environment), managed by a sister company under the overall YTL stable.

Wing claims that this problem led YTL Comms to a global search for the right solution which it found at the door of Google and its Chromebook, which with its low-cost cloud based services versus the PC-era architecture of the others; instant-on ability; and all-day battery life, was a clear winner to YTL Comms.

Each school will have 41 Chromebooks made by Samsung with 3,000 schools to get them initially. “The first contract,” as Wing describes it, declining to put a value to it. [Update]


However, on its website, the Samsung Chromebook is listed at RM1,299; or RM988 under the YES 4G Chromebook Plan, for RM69 per month with a monthly 3.5GB data quota.

[RM1 = US$0.34].


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KUALA LUMPUR: YTL Communications Sdn Bhd has claimed the ministry of education breached contractual obligations pertaining to the supply of Internet connectivity to 10,000 schools nationwide following its appointment of

Telekom Malaysia Bhd,
Celcom Axiata Bhd
and
Maxis Bhd

as providers of interim Internet services for the second half of the year (2H19).

Under the ministry’s June 27 announcement, the three telecommunication companies (telcos) will replace YTL Communications for the period July 1 to Dec 31, 2019.


After investing more than RM4 billion building up the infrastructure in the schools for the 15-year project, YTL Communications maintained it was its “legitimate expectation” that it would be given an extension of the contract into the next phase.

“We view the ministry’s actions as being in breach of their contractual obligations to us. Disappointingly, they have not acted in good faith in respect of what we have been informed and what has actually been implemented,” the 60%-owned subsidiary of

YTL Power International Bhd said in a statement yesterday.

It cautioned changing the (teaching) platform “will set the entire education system backwards years.”

According to YTL Communications, the ministry had requested for free Internet services for 10,000 schools operating a virtual learning environment (VLE), as it was “not ready for a tender for implementation on July 1” when phase 2 of the contract with YTL Communications would expire.

YTL Communications said this was communicated during a meeting on April 23 between the ministry, TM, Celcom Axiata and Maxis as well as other Internet service providers (ISPs) over Phase 3 of the 1BestariNet project.

“The ministry requested that we provide free Internet services as the government ‘did not have the budget’ to pay for these services.”

In response, the telco wrote to Education Minister Dr Maszlee Malik on May 31 confirming that it would provide a complete solution of free Internet services as well as the Frog VLE for the interim period until the tender was called and awarded.

“Our primary concern was to ensure teaching in schools was not disrupted in the middle of the school year. Unfortunately, we did not receive any response to our offer,” YTL Communications said, adding it had come as a complete surprise to hear its rivals had been appointed instead.

“The ministry had excluded YTL Communications, reneged on its statement to call an open tender and agreed to pay for the Internet services to the three appointed ISPs, although we had offered the services for free.”
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The 1BestariNet project was awarded to YTL Communications in 2011 after an open tender for a 15-year service contract to be implemented in phases. The scope of work included providing a total learning solution comprising Internet connectivity, security and the Frog VLE.

In July last year, the ministry announced it would call a fresh tender for the learning solutions. YTL Communications claimed the ministry confirmed the company would not be excluded from the tender.

Abandoning Frog VLE in favour of Google Classrooms would lead to disruptions as years of teaching content has been created on the platform, YTL Communications asserted, and as entire schools have become acculturated to using the platform.

“Having successfully completed Phases 1 and 2, Phase 3 would have seen the full adoption of digital teaching and learning in classrooms January 2020.

“Changing the platform and starting all over again will set the entire education system backwards years,” YTL Communications warned.

However, YTL Communications said it will continue to make the Frog VLE available and to allow teachers to retain the smartphones provisioned with teacher data plans to prove its commitment to serve the nation. “This would prevent disruption and would allow teaching and learning to continue in classrooms and at home.”

This post has been edited by plouffle0789: Mar 4 2024, 03:48 AM

Heh, smart.

Tap into SG with that sweet SGD

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per capita spending on nvidia chips


new economic metric wow

TS is terrorist

Please do not reveal location of the data center

Sentul will be renamed Bandar YTL next year?

Kulai also?

How many locals will get employed once the data centres completed?

This dc is what tier level ?

Tier IV and up to 72MW to start with

Not many, DC's don't need a lot of man power

kulai

KUALA LUMPUR: RHB Research maintains a buy call on YTL Power International Bhd as it is optimistic on the potential Johor thematic play arising from its future development of data centre (DC) and solar assets in Kulai.
https://www.nst.com.my/business/corporate/2...ytl-power-boost

Kulai is famous with IOI group (bandar putra)

Genting group (Taman Indahpura ,kulai )

If not mistaken it is very deep inside the palm oil land .remote area.

Mostly at the industrial area near Sedenak there. There are other data centers there.

Construction already in the works if i am not mistaken. Kulai really is booming with incoming ets as well

no benefit on local, all expert from other state or country.
Nowaday DC are fully automate, less people to intervene

This post has been edited by wong_86: Mar 4 2024, 08:43 AM

can tier 4 when the electricity is provided by the same company (TNB)?

BULLOCK LA

last time talk east talk west pujimak sentul how how how

now u see la how many YTL project running?

talk cock je pandai

Johor has quite a number of powerplants, maybe they can achieve it by relying on a coal fire one and another from the gas powerplant?

i dun understanding your england

u saying ytl good or u saying ytl bad?