Singapore's Singtel and AI cloud platform Nscale have announced a strategic partnership that will unlock both companies' GPU capacity across Europe and Southeast Asia. In a statement on Thursday, the companies said this collaboration aims to meet the growing global demand from enterprises for generative AI, high-performance computing, and data-intensive workloads.
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Partnership Overview
The collaboration will enable Singtel to utilise Nscale's AMD and Nvidia GPU capacity in Europe, while Nscale will access Singtel's Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPUs in Southeast Asia. This capability ensures that Singtel can meet high-volume requirements on demand and maintain service excellence, especially when additional capacity is needed, the companies said in a joint statement. In return, Nscale will benefit from Singtel's advanced GPU infrastructure through an integration with Singtel's Paragon orchestration platform.
Singtel's Digital InfraCo and Nxera said, "As we continue to augment our GPUaaS offerings, we are forging a series of strategic partnerships to grow our ecosystem and broaden our service availability for our customers. Our partnership with Nscale will allow our customers to access their high-performance GPU resources on demand, unlocking new possibilities for innovation and efficiency."
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Nscale said, "Our sustainable AI-ready data center, together with our GW pipeline of data center capacity, uniquely positions us to deliver sustainable AI infrastructure at any scale for customers worldwide. Through this strategic partnership, Nscale will provide Singtel customers with unmatched access to sustainable, high-performance, and cost-effective AI compute to accelerate enterprise generative AI in the region and beyond."
Singtel previously announced in February that it will be launching its GPUaaS later this year, providing enterprises with access to Nvidia's AI computing power. Singtel also recently announced a partnership with Vultr in the US and a strategic partnership with Bridge Alliance that will bring its GPUaaS offerings to enterprises across Southeast Asia.
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The partnership also supports the expansion of Singtel's GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS), with new sustainable, AI-ready data centers set to launch in Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia by mid-2025.
Nscale's recent acquisition of Kontena and its partnership with Open Innovation AI further bolster its ability to provide high-performance AI infrastructure, the official release said.
