In a statement today, the company said it will deploy Nvidia H100 tensor core graphics processing units (GPUs), which power today’s most advanced AI data centres, and use Nvidia AI Enterprise software to streamline production AI.

This announcement was made following a meeting between Nvidia founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang and Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim today, Bernama reported. Also at the meeting were Tengku Zafrul Aziz, the minister of investment, trade and industry and Yeoh Seok Hong, YTL managing director.

Tengku Zafrul told reporters later that partnerships such as the one between YTL and Nvidia were “exactly the kind of strategic collaborations targeted by our New Industrial Master Plan 2030”.

“By offering supercomputing cloud services and leveraging AI to power innovations, such partnerships enhance our economic complexity, paving the way for us to become a high technology and high-income nation while further positioning Malaysia as a top investment destination.”

The AI infrastructure will be hosted in a 500 megawatts YTL data centre in Kulai, Johor. The AI infrastructure that will provide AI computing services to the nation will be owned and managed by subsidiary company YTL Communications Sdn Bhd.

YTL Communications owns and operates the “Yes” national mobile network.