Zankore by Indosat: inside the 1 GW AI infrastructure platform
In August 2026, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison announced Zankore by Indosat — a joint venture with Ooredoo Group, Nokia, and NVIDIA aiming to build one of Southeast Asia's largest AI infrastructure platforms.
Key takeaways
- Zankore targets 1 GW of NVIDIA DSX AI Factory capacity over the long term, with roughly 200 MW live in the first half of 2027 using NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems.
- Ooredoo Group is the lead investor, committing $800M in capital; Indosat contributes domestic telecom infrastructure and local execution.
- NVIDIA supplies accelerated computing, DSX architecture, and AI software; Nokia provides AI-native networking.
- Former Ericsson CTO Ulf Ewaldsson leads Zankore as chief executive officer.
What was announced
Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, together with Ooredoo Group, Nokia, and NVIDIA, launched Zankore by Indosat — a full-stack AI infrastructure platform built to serve the Asia-Pacific region first, with ambitions to expand more broadly. The companies describe the long-term goal as one of the region's largest dedicated AI infrastructure platforms, built around NVIDIA's DSX AI Factory reference design.
The first phase is scoped at roughly 200 MW of NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 compute capacity, targeted to come online in the first half of 2027, as a step toward a 1 GW long-term build-out. NVIDIA's DSX architecture integrates accelerated computing, networking, cooling, and power management as a single reference design, and its DSX MaxLPS technology is aimed at optimizing GPU power draw to lift usable computing capacity by up to 40%.
Who does what
The venture splits cleanly along each partner's core strength. Ooredoo Group is the lead investor, providing long-term capital — reported at $800M — and regional expertise. Indosat contributes its domestic telecommunications infrastructure, market presence, and local execution capability. NVIDIA supplies the accelerated computing technology, AI software stack, and access to its partner ecosystem. Nokia brings AI-native networking infrastructure to tie the platform together.
Former Ericsson chief technology officer Ulf Ewaldsson was appointed CEO of Zankore. Indosat President Director and CEO Vikram Sinha framed the platform as bringing together 'the full AI stack' to give enterprises 'a trusted foundation to accelerate AI adoption at scale.' Indonesia's Minister of Communication and Digital Affairs, Meutya Hafid, tied the announcement to the country's sovereign AI ambitions, citing Indonesia's resources, talent, and global partnerships.
How it fits the rest of the Indosat + NVIDIA stack
Zankore extends a partnership that already includes GPU Merdeka by Lintasarta (a sovereign NVIDIA-accelerated AI cloud running at a BDx Indonesia data center), Sahabat-AI (open Indonesian-language models built on NVIDIA NeMo and NIM), and the Indosat-NVIDIA-Cisco AI Center of Excellence running an NVIDIA Blackwell AI factory. Where those efforts proved the model at a smaller scale, Zankore is the infrastructure bet at national and regional scale — intended to host AI workloads like Sahabat-AI, AI Grid, and AI-RAN capabilities.
For enterprises evaluating GPU capacity in Indonesia, Zankore signals committed, multi-year supply of NVIDIA's latest GB300-generation hardware inside the country, rather than a one-off deployment. It's a reason the GPUaaS roadmap on this site can plan around locally hosted next-generation NVIDIA capacity rather than treating it as a future possibility.