23 August 2024
Singtel and Bridge Alliance, a mobile alliance of 34 operators worldwide, have announced a strategic partnership that will bring Singtel's GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) offerings to enterprises across the region.
Southeast Asian telcos AIS, Maxis, and Telkomsel are among the alliance's early adopters, addressing the growing demand for AI computing in Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, respectively.
The GPUaaS offering will facilitate rapid and cost-effective AI deployment, potentially adding up to US$1 trillion to the Southeast Asian economy by 2030. As part of the agreement, additional GPU clusters will be established in Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia to meet increasing demand. Bridge Alliance will assist its member operators (BMOs) in accelerating market entry and optimising the GPUaaS rollout, the joint statement said.
"Our collaboration with Bridge Alliance and telcos in the region will help democratise and accelerate the use of AI by enterprises across all industries, providing them with the tools to achieve greater productivity and business value with our next-generation digital infrastructure and solutions," said Singtel in a statement.
"We're delighted to bring the benefits of GPUaaS and AI computing to enterprise customers in the markets where our BMOs operate,” said Bridge Alliance.
The service will launch with Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPUs and next-generation GB200 AI Servers. It will be expanded to new AI-ready data centres managed by Nxera, Singtel's regional data centre business, starting in mid-2025.
