BP Batam Oversees Rp88 Trillion AI Data Centre Investment for Batam’s Digital Transformation
The BP Batam has reaffirmed its commitment to transforming Batam into a regional hub for the digital industry and artificial intelligence (AI) through the signing of a Power Purchase Agreement (PJBTL)
BATAM – The BP Batam has reaffirmed its commitment to transforming Batam into a regional hub for the digital industry and artificial intelligence (AI) through the signing of a Power Purchase Agreement (PJBTL) between PT PLN Batam and PT Equator Gate System Batam (EGSB) on Monday (25/5/2026) at Tanjung Kasam Hall, PT PLN Batam Corporate Office.
The agreement marks a strategic milestone in strengthening Batam’s digital ecosystem while demonstrating the region’s readiness to support globally standardized hyperscale AI Data Centre investments.
PT Equator Gate System Batam is an AI Data Centre developer backed by Range Intelligent Computing Technology Company Limited (RangeIDC), one of China’s largest data centre companies listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Batam has been selected as the company’s first international expansion destination outside China, with a focus on developing High-Density AI Data Centres.
This strategic project carries an investment value of approximately USD 5 billion, or around Rp88 trillion, covering an estimated 30 hectares in the Teluk Mata Ikan area, Nongsa, Batam.
Vice Head of BP Batam, Li Claudia Chandra, stated that investment in the digital sector is a key component of Batam’s new economic transformation direction.
“Batam possesses strong geographical advantages, international connectivity, and highly competitive industrial readiness for the future digital industry. The presence of this AI Data Centre investment represents a major momentum in accelerating Batam’s transformation toward a technology-driven, innovation-based, and digital economy,” she said.
Meanwhile, Deputy for Investment at BP Batam, Fary Djemy Francis, emphasized that BP Batam will oversee the project through a fast-track execution approach to ensure accelerated investment realization.
According to him, energy readiness is a fundamental factor for the AI and modern data centre industry, which requires large-scale, stable, and sustainable electricity supply.
“BP Batam is ensuring investment certainty, accelerated services, and industrial area readiness. PLN Batam is ensuring energy preparedness. This collaboration demonstrates that Batam is ready to become Indonesia’s AI & Digital Gateway connected to the global ecosystem,” said Fary.
He further added that the EGSB project is expected to become an anchor investment capable of attracting other strategic industries, including cloud computing, semiconductor ecosystems, AI services, and various global digital industries.
In addition to strengthening Batam’s position within the international digital industrial chain, the investment is projected to generate broad economic impact through the creation of professional employment opportunities, technology transfer, enhancement of local human resource competitiveness, and sustainable digital economic growth.
EGSB is expected to employ approximately 700–800 professionals in the data centre and digital technology sectors through collaborative recruitment and talent development programs with universities in Batam.
BP Batam views the synergy between government institutions, energy providers, industry players, and educational institutions as a crucial foundation in building Batam into a modern, competitive, and world-class national digital economic growth center.
“Batam is no longer developing solely as a manufacturing industrial zone, but is transforming into an Execution Hub of Global Digital Industry,” Fary concluded. (*)
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