ByteDance is moving to establish cloud capacity beyond China that makes use of Nvidia’s highest-end Blackwell chips, according to people familiar with the arrangement. The project is being developed with Aolani Cloud and will be hosted in Malaysia.
The setup calls for at least 500 Nvidia Blackwell servers to be deployed in Malaysia, which the parties say will contain about 36,000 B200 accelerator chips in total. Aolani Cloud is acquiring those servers from Aivres, a firm that assembles processors using Nvidia components for customers seeking ready-to-deploy systems.
U.S. export rules currently bar Nvidia from directly selling advanced artificial intelligence chips into China. In response to that constraint, some Chinese technology companies have sought to locate data centres and related infrastructure outside the country so they can gain access to the chips effectively. Earlier reporting indicated ByteDance had already used B200 Nvidia chips in a data centre in Indonesia as part of that pattern.
The company that owns TikTok has been accelerating its development of AI-driven products with an explicit aim of competing internationally in the AI sector. It has rolled out multiple artificial intelligence applications both domestically and abroad, and its AI video-generation model, Seedance, recently attracted viral attention.
Context and mechanics - The Malaysia deployment is structured through a partnership model: ByteDance is partnering with a regional cloud operator, Aolani Cloud, which is purchasing fully assembled servers from Aivres. Those servers incorporate Nvidia Blackwell B200 chips.
Strategic goal - The infrastructure expansion supports ByteDance’s push to scale AI capabilities and deliver AI applications internationally. The firm has introduced AI apps in multiple markets and has marketed generative video tools that have drawn widespread user interest.
Limitations - Public details on the operational timeline, specific product rollouts tied to the Malaysia site, and contractual terms among the parties were not provided in the reporting available.