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CoreWeave announces first Asia-Pacific data center in Indonesia, marking strategic expansion into high-growth regional market.

Major peer capacity expansion into APAC positions CoreWeave as critical alternative to hyperscalers for regional AI workloads.
NewswireSlicast · August 4, 2026 · US · Source: Google News
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AI cloud computing company CoreWeave announced on Tuesday that it is expanding into Indonesia and adding three new facilities in the country, marking its first data-center presence in the Asia-Pacific region. The expansion reflects broader demand for AI cloud infrastructure globally, as technology companies rush to secure the hardware and cloud capacity needed to develop and run AI systems.

CoreWeave will add a total of 360 megawatts of contracted power through the three data centers, owning and operating all three sites. The company said that across Asia, enterprises, AI-native companies, and governments increasingly need AI compute located close to their data and users, driven by both latency-sensitive workloads and data locality requirements. As part of the Indonesia expansion, CoreWeave will also build and train a local team to operate the new facilities, supporting the country's AI ambitions.

The new facilities expand CoreWeave's growing global data-center footprint. The company was operating 49 data centers worldwide as of March. In May, CoreWeave raised the lower end of its 2026 capital spending forecast, citing higher component prices amid a shortage of memory chips. The company now plans to spend between $31 billion and $35 billion this year.

CoreWeave has secured several major deals this year to support its expansion. In May, it expanded its cloud agreement with Meta to $21 billion and signed a multi-year agreement with Anthropic, the creator of Claude.

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