# Qatar's Ooredoo Partners with Nvidia and Nokia on 1 GW AI Compute Platform

> The AI infrastructure race is spreading well beyond Silicon Valley. Qatar's Ooredoo Group is investing $800 million over five years to become a 49 percent founding shareholder in Zankore, a new AI compute platform built with Nvidia and Nokia and aimed squarely at Southeast Asia. The plan is to reach one gigawatt of capacity within three years, with 200 megawatts already secured, starting in Indonesia. The economics are ambitious. Backers project roughly $13 billion in total revenue and $9 billion in cumulative EBITDA over five to six years, selling GPU power as a service. A clever wrinkle is orchestration software that squeezes up to 40 percent more usable capacity out of the same hardware through smarter power management. There is early evidence the appetite is real. Ooredoo's Indonesian neocloud business pulled in $33 million in the first half of 2026, already beating its entire 2025 haul. It is a concrete sign that the money and demand behind AI compute are going global, with the Gulf and Southeast Asia now firmly in the picture.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: Fortune · Published Thursday, August 6, 2026_

## Wortins' read

The AI infrastructure race is spreading well beyond Silicon Valley. Qatar's Ooredoo Group is investing $800 million over five years to become a 49 percent founding shareholder in Zankore, a new AI compute platform built with Nvidia and Nokia and aimed squarely at Southeast Asia. The plan is to reach one gigawatt of capacity within three years, with 200 megawatts already secured, starting in Indonesia. The economics are ambitious. Backers project roughly $13 billion in total revenue and $9 billion in cumulative EBITDA over five to six years, selling GPU power as a service. A clever wrinkle is orchestration software that squeezes up to 40 percent more usable capacity out of the same hardware through smarter power management. There is early evidence the appetite is real. Ooredoo's Indonesian neocloud business pulled in $33 million in the first half of 2026, already beating its entire 2025 haul. It is a concrete sign that the money and demand behind AI compute are going global, with the Gulf and Southeast Asia now firmly in the picture.

## Source

[Read the full story at Fortune](https://fortune.com/2026/08/06/qatar-ooredoo-nvidia-nokia-unveil-multi-billion-dollar-ai-compute-platformand-southeast-asia-is-their-target/)

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