Taiwan just lit up a sovereign AI data center in Tainan built around Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs, signaling a serious bet on domestic AI compute.
The facility is tied to the National Center for High-performance Computing and is now the island’s largest AI supercomputing hub, making it a core national asset rather than a commercial cloud add-on.
Capacity is planned to grow sixfold by 2028 in partnership with Japan’s NTT, which means more racks, more power, and cross-border integration with Japan’s AI and network infrastructure.
Blackwell at this scale locks Taiwan deeper into the Nvidia ecosystem, which simplifies the near-term AI stack but concentrates risk in one vendor and one GPU architecture.
Power and cooling will be the real constraint here, as a sixfold expansion of Blackwell-class GPUs will push grid, thermal, and facility design well beyond typical enterprise data center norms.
The move also tightens the loop between Taiwan’s sovereign AI ambitions and its semiconductor supply chain, using local fabs and packaging as both supplier base and strategic hedge.
Worth a read for anyone tracking how countries are turning GPU-heavy facilities into national infrastructure platforms rather than just another cloud region.
Source: Taiwan opens sovereign AI data center with Nvidia-powered supercomputer – Nikkei Asia
