DCI Sees Global AI Surge Opening Expansion Opportunities for Indonesia's Data Centre Industry

Jakarta (ANTARA) - PT DCI Indonesia Tbk regards the high demand from global artificial intelligence (AI) providers for data centre services as opening expansion opportunities for Indonesia’s data centre industry, particularly amid global dynamics. These dynamics include electricity supply limitations in the United States (US) and Europe, conflicts in the Middle East, and US-China geopolitical tensions. “This presents potential for emerging markets like Indonesia to achieve faster market growth in the future, especially from the perspective of global AI data centre needs seeking capacity worldwide,” said VP of Market Development and Sales Strategy at DCI Indonesia, Abieta Billy, during a public expose in Jakarta on Monday. Billy noted that revenues of AI service providers have grown significantly from 2023 to 2025. Moreover, the number of active AI service users has continued to rise in recent years. Along with this growth, he added, global data centre demand is projected to increase rapidly, nearly tenfold between 2025 and 2030. Billy also explained that the utilisation of data centres by AI companies is shifting from model training to inference, which is the use of trained models to meet user demands, both individual and enterprise. With this shift, the proportion of data centre computing load for inference is projected to rise from around 40 per cent in 2025 to 80 per cent in 2030. “Indonesia itself has a population of more than 280 million; inference will become a key pillar in data centre demand in Indonesia going forward,” said Billy. When asked about DCI Indonesia’s expansion plans for this year, Billy stated that the company will build data centres according to market demand. “If, for example, a customer comes looking for data centre capacity, we will certainly build according to their demand,” he said. Regarding the company’s strategy amid increasingly tight data centre business competition in Indonesia, Billy revealed that customers typically evaluate several key criteria, one of which is the track record in serving customers. “In that regard, DCI has a very strong position. We already have more than 270 customers, 80 per cent of whom are multinational clients, including the world’s largest technology and enterprise companies,” he said. In addition, the second criterion for customers is speed to market. Billy said that DCI leads in Indonesia in terms of construction speed, with the ability to build data centres in less than 12 months. According to him, this speed is a crucial factor in winning competition, as the faster the data centre is ready, the sooner customers can generate revenue from their operations. “We at DCI are also continuously innovating in our processes, designs, and architecture to deliver data centre capacity even faster than before,” said Billy. The company currently operates a data centre platform with a total service capacity of 128 MW spread across four locations: H1 Campus Cibitung, H2 Campus Karawang, E1 Jakarta, and E2 Surabaya. In 2025, DCI Indonesia recorded revenue of Rp2.5 trillion, up 40.1 per cent (year-on-year/yoy) from the previous year’s Rp1.8 trillion. Along with revenue growth, the company’s EBITDA grew by 31 per cent (yoy) to Rp1.5 trillion. Meanwhile, net profit also increased by 25.7 per cent (yoy) to Rp1 trillion in 2025.