RAIA Grid Targets December Start for NVIDIA B300 GPU Assembly
PT Infra Fiber Teknologi, branded RAIA Grid and jointly owned by Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and Hashim Djojohadikusumo’s Arsari Group, said it plans to begin assembling NVIDIA B300—also described as Blackwell Ultra—AI GPUs in Indonesia in December 2026. Deputy CEO Aryo P.S. Djojohadikusumo outlined roughly US$22 million in capital expenditure for a facility near Jakarta, with early monthly capacity framed around one hundred forty to one hundred fifty GPUs to feed domestic data-centre demand.
Filed under Infrastructure and dated September 17, 2026, this AI4Indonesia briefing treats the plant as Indonesian hardware-localisation news rather than a foundry claim. Executives stress assembly, not wafer fabrication, and position the line as support for LLM and other AI workloads across Indonesian regions while trying to keep Chinese and other hyperscale demand from diverting to neighbouring markets when local capacity is missing. RAIA Grid also talks up fiber, autonomous-network software, and data-centre connectivity as a wider digital-infrastructure stack.
Why it matters: Indonesian AI factories still import most accelerators. Local assembly can shorten lead times—but only if yields, NVIDIA supply allocations, and True landed costs stay published.
What it means in practice
Indonesian cloud and enterprise buyers should clarify whether RAIA Grid output is reserved for Indosat ecosystems or open market; confirm warranty and firmware update paths; assign an owner for export-control compliance; run time-boxed comparisons against imported B300 inventory; and prefer contracts that disclose spare-parts lead times. Place the plant beside Zankore’s factory financing and Lintasarta’s GPU access push.
Caveats come first. December targets can slip; assembly is not chipmaking sovereignty; and one-hundred-fifty-unit months are illustrative, not national supply. AI4Indonesia therefore presents RAIA Grid’s B300 plan as directional infrastructure context until first shipped units and utilisation reports appear.
What to watch next: December commissioning photos or customs filings; January 2027 run-rate claims; and how Zankore’s NVIDIA platform absorbs locally assembled cards. Readers can continue on the AI4Indonesia homepage, or browse the Newsroom for additional briefings.
Bottom line: treat this update as orientation, not instruction. Indonesian GPU assembly plans are concrete on paper and still early. Organizations that benefit most will verify shipment proofs, keep import alternatives open, and refuse to confuse a joint-venture announcement with finished semiconductor independence.