ByteDance Plans Malaysia AI Data Center Using Nvidia Blackwell Chips

ByteDance, TikTok's Chinese parent company, is reportedly collaborating with Southeast Asian firm Aolani Cloud to deploy around 500 Nvidia Blackwell computing systems, totaling approximately 36,000 B200 chips, at a data center in Malaysia. This initiative, valued at over $2.5 billion, aims to enhance ByteDance's global artificial intelligence capabilities by expanding computing power outside China. The company already operates several popular AI applications and maintains AI research teams worldwide, including in the US and Singapore.