If things go as per plan, AI cloud provider GMI Cloud’s US$ 500 million AI factory in Taiwan could go online in March, paving the way for sovereign AI infrastructure deployment. The facility features 7,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs across 96 high-density racks, close to two million tokens per second of processing capacity, and a 16 MW power draw. Plans for the AI factory were originally unveiled in November last year.
In an official blog, GMI Cloud said that it aims to provide Taiwan with “the infrastructure to build, train, and deploy advanced AI systems on its own terms.” It said that given how Asia’s telecom, finance, semiconductor, and emerging AI sectors, have all “been straining under the need for consistent, high-density compute for LLMs and multimodal systems,” GMI Cloud envisioned its Taiwan AI factory as a facility “designed to keep data local, guarantee capacity, and give regional industries a platform they can build on.”
It further said that this upcoming AI Factory facility “isn’t a finish line, but the start of how Taiwan plans to compete in the global AI economy and equip its enterprises for the decade ahead.”
“This “AI factory” strengthens regional capacity for training and large-scale inference while supporting early customers,” said Alex Yeh, CEO, GMI Cloud in a LinkedIn post “It is designed to serve as a strategic asset for the region’s next wave of AI development.”
GMI Cloud further revealed that the AI factory will run training, evaluation, finetuning, and inference in an ongoing cycle, enabling rapid adaptation to new data, new tasks, and new operational contexts. It said that the facility aimed to be a “national-scale intelligence engine”, capable of generating and updating AI systems continuously. “This is the environment Taiwan needs to build, deploy, and govern AI that reflects its own industrial priorities, security requirements, and regional ambitions.”
According to Mordor Intelligence, Taiwan’s data center market size in 2026 is estimated at US$ 278.78 million, growing from 2025 value of US$ 255.47 million, with 2031 projections showing US$ 431.5 million, growing at 9.12 percent CAGR over 2026-2031. In terms of IT load capacity, the market is expected to grow from 280.90 MW in 2025 to 430.90 MW by 2030, at a CAGR of 8.94 percent during the forecast period (2025-2030).
GMI Cloud, a Silicon Valley-born company now embedded across Asia’s telecom, finance, semiconductor, and emerging AI sectors, has global operations spanning Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Thailand and the USA.