(Caption:) MOU signing on supporting national and regional AI development. (Back row, from left to right): Mr Lew Chuen Hong, Chief Executive Officer of the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA); Dr Janil Puthucheary, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information; Mr Bill Chang, CEO of Nxera and Singtel’s Digital InfraCo unit. (Front row, from left to right): Mr Ronnie Vasishta, SVP Telecom, NVIDIA; Mr Lee Yoong Kin, Vice President of Products & Platform, Nxera.

The Singtel-NVIDIA collaboration supports Singapore’s national AI strategy designed to spur the next phase of economic development. It involves developing DC Tuas to be AI-ready by as early as 2026.

Singtel has joined the NVIDIA Partner Network Cloud Programme and will bring NVIDIA’s full-stack AI platform to enterprises across the region. Singtel’s NVIDIA-powered AI Cloud will be hosted by Singtel’s Nxera regional data centre business, which will be developing a new generation of sustainable, hyper-connected AI-ready data centres (DC). 

Mr Bill Chang, CEO of Nxera and Singtel’s Digital InfraCo unit, said, “We are pleased to collaborate with AI leader NVIDIA to deliver AI infrastructure services, democratizing access for enterprises, startups, government agencies and research organizations to leverage the power of AI sustainably within our purpose-built AI data centres. 

“This tie-up provides an easy on-ramp for enterprises across all industries which can accelerate their development of generative AI, large language models, AI finetuning and other AI workloads. Together with our sustainable AI DCs, 5G network platform and our AI cluster with NVIDIA, these form part of our next-generation digital infrastructure to support AI adoption and digital transformation in Singapore and the region.” 

Mr Ronnie Vasishta, SVP for Telecom at NVIDIA, said, “Our collaboration with Singtel will combine technologies and expertise to facilitate the development of robust AI infrastructure in Singapore and throughout the region. In addition to supporting the Singapore government’s AI strategy, this will empower enterprises, regional customers and startups with advanced AI capabilities.” 

“Together with our sustainable AI DCs, 5G network platform and our AI cluster with NVIDIA, these form part of our next-generation digital infrastructure to support AI adoption and digital transformation in Singapore and the region.”

(Image credit: NVIDIA)

Singtel’s upcoming hyper-connected green 58MW DC Tuas in Singapore will be one of the first data centres that will be AI ready when it comes into operation in early 2026. 

DC Tuas will offer a high density environment suited for AI workloads and will operate at a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.23 at full load, making it one of the most efficient in the industry. Besides DC Tuas, Singtel is developing two other state-of-the-art data centre projects in Indonesia and Thailand. 

The NVIDIA GPU clusters will run in existing upgraded data centres initially and can be further expanded into the new AI DCs when they are ready for service. Singtel has trialled GPU services at the 5G@Sentosa testbed for many government agencies since 2021. Singtel’s patented Paragon platform will also enable customers to orchestrate, manage and deploy their various networks, AI and cloud workloads across multiple providers.

This collaboration supports Singapore’s national AI strategy designed to spur the next phase of economic development by empowering its citizens and businesses with the latest technology. The plan calls for growing the country’s compute infrastructure as well as its specialist pool of AI talent.

About Singtel 

Singtel is Asia’s leading communications technology group, providing a portfolio of services from next generation communication, 5G and technology services to infotainment to both consumers and businesses. 

The Group has presence in Asia, Australia and Africa, reaches over 760 million mobile customers in 21 countries, with infrastructure and technology services for businesses spanning 21 countries, and over 428 direct points of presence in 362 cities. Singtel is dedicated to continuous innovation, harnessing technology to create new and exciting customer experiences and shape a more sustainable, digital future.

For more information, visit www.singtel.com.

(This article was adapted from a Singtel press release)