KUALA LUMPUR: Nvidia is in advanced talks with Malaysian conglomerate YTL on a data centre deal, three sources familiar with the matter said, as the United States chip giant looks for more business from Southeast Asia.

The potential tie-up would include collaborating on cloud infrastructure, and is likely to be anchored at YTL’s data centre complex in the southern Malaysian state of Johor, bordering Singapore, one of the people said.

The partnership would offer businesses in Southeast Asia access to Nvidia’s AI chips via cloud computing, a second person briefed on the matter said.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who was visiting Malaysia on Friday (Dec 8), declined to comment directly on a potential deal.

“YTL is an extraordinary company, (Malaysia) is an important hub for SEA (Southeast Asia) computing infrastructure, which requires access to land, facilities and power, and YTL could play a great role in that,” he told Reuters at a news conference. “It would be a privilege for us to partner with YTL in any way.”