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Malaysia's YTL launches Nvidia-powered AI Cloud supercomputing bid

Prime minister says move to 'accelerate the country's adoption of AI'

An artist rendering of YTL's AI Cloud data center facility, which is under construction in the Malaysian state of Johor.   © YTL Power

KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysian conglomerate YTL Group is turning to the latest chips from semiconductor giant Nvidia as it pushes to build one of the world's fastest AI supercomputers.

YTL said that it is launching, via its subsidiary YTL Power International, Malaysia's first artificial intelligence cloud, which will deploy Nvidia's new Blackwell graphics processing unit (GPU), according to a YTL news release on Monday in the U.S., where it participated in Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California.

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