en.Wedoany.com Reported - AI cloud service provider GMI Cloud and AI transformation company Magna AI have announced a partnership to advance sovereign AI factory plans.
According to an agreement disclosed on June 11, the two parties will jointly architect and deploy a global sovereign AI factory network for governments, enterprises, and national-level AI projects.
The initial deployments are planned for Malaysia, Belgium, and Romania, with subsequent expansion to the Middle East and Africa. These AI factories will be built using the Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 architecture.
GMI Cloud CEO Alex Yeh stated that governments increasingly view AI infrastructure as a strategic national asset, and the company's mission is to help countries design, build, and operate sovereign AI platforms to achieve innovation, security, and long-term competitiveness. Dr. Moataz BiAali, CEO of Magna AI, added that sovereign AI is becoming the foundation of future economic and technological competitiveness, and the two companies are accelerating AI adoption by helping countries deploy secure, resilient, and scalable sovereign AI infrastructure.
The two companies have initiated joint planning efforts covering site assessment, infrastructure architecture, compliance requirements, and phased deployment strategies, with groundbreaking expected later this year. Earlier this year, GMI Cloud announced a $12 billion sovereign AI infrastructure investment plan in Japan, stating it would collaborate with Wistron to launch an AI factory in Kagoshima, Japan, targeting large-scale physical AI applications.
Meanwhile, RE:AI, the AI cloud business of Singtel's Digital InfraCo unit, announced a partnership with WEKA to build and deliver sovereign AI infrastructure solutions in Singapore and the broader ASEAN region. The two parties will combine RE:AI's AI cloud infrastructure and network orchestration platform with WEKA's high-performance software-defined storage system NeuralMesh, aiming to eliminate storage bottlenecks and reduce GPU idle time. Singtel will also integrate NeuralMesh into its GPU-as-a-Service offerings for governments and enterprises.
Bill Chang, CEO of Singtel's Digital InfraCo, noted that as sovereign AI accelerates in ASEAN, governments and enterprises need infrastructure that is secure, compliant, and capable of running at scale. Modern AI is no longer limited solely by computing power; the real bottleneck is the speed at which data reaches the GPU. The two parties will provide customer access through three models: dedicated sovereign pods, suitable for single-tenant environments supporting highly sensitive workloads; regulated multi-tenant sovereign zones, offering isolated shared environments for regulated industries; and hybrid sovereign models, integrating on-premises systems with sovereign cloud capacity.
RE:AI earlier this year partnered with Mistral AI to enhance Singapore's sovereign AI capabilities. At that time, RE:AI stated it would collaborate with Mistral to develop advanced AI infrastructure using Mistral AI's technology stack, offering multi-tenant GPU-as-a-Service and AI-as-a-Service products. Singtel's Nxera unit earlier this year activated the DC Tuas data center in Singapore, which has a capacity of 58MW, making it the company's largest facility in the country. Although Singtel is closing some small legacy data centers in Singapore, it continues to operate multiple large facilities in the city-state through its Nxera unit.
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