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CoreWeave announced a 360 MW Indonesia buildout as its first Asia-Pacific data-center presence.

CoreWeave said it will add three Indonesian facilities totaling 360 megawatts of contracted IT power, expected online in 2028, and will own and operate the compute environment across all three sites. Data Center Dynamics independently reported the same 360 MW target and noted that specific locations and per-site capacities were not disclosed. CoreWeave framed the move as a response to regional demand, latency-sensitive workloads and data-locality requirements.

Verified 8:32 AM PDT · 2 original sources

The evidence

What the reporting establishes

What happened

CoreWeave said it will add three Indonesian facilities totaling 360 megawatts of contracted IT power, expected online in 2028, and will own and operate the compute environment across all three sites. Data Center Dynamics independently reported the same 360 MW target and noted that specific locations and per-site capacities were not disclosed. CoreWeave framed the move as a response to regional demand, latency-sensitive workloads and data-locality requirements.

Pressure point

This is primarily a company announcement, and the exact sites, capital cost, customers and utilization are not public. The strategic signal is still useful: AI cloud expansion is becoming a regional infrastructure contest, and buyers increasingly want compute near data, users and sovereign-policy boundaries.

What to watch

Local permits, power and water disclosures, named anchor customers, financing terms, GPU allocation, whether capacity comes online in 2028, and whether other AI clouds answer with Southeast Asia buildouts or partnerships.

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Original sources

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  1. CoreWeaveCoreWeave Expands Cloud AI Platform to Indonesia, Marking First Move Into Asia-Pacific Region
  2. Data Center DynamicsCoreWeave plans to launch 360MW of data center capacity in Indonesia

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