Nvidia’s Sovereign AI Pact and Indonesian Mega-Campus Test Wall Street’s Patience as GPU Rental Slips
Veröffentlicht: 30.06.2026 um 03:13 Uhr, Redaktion boerse-global.de
Nvidia is pushing deeper into two distinct frontiers — secure government AI and massive Asian cloud infrastructure — even as a softening rental market for its flagship chips gives analysts pause. A new partnership with Palantir Technologies targets sovereign AI in highly sensitive, air-gapped government environments, while a 360-megawatt data center on Indonesia’s Batam island will absorb up to 170,000 of Nvidia’s latest accelerators.
The collaboration with Palantir is built around a “Sovereign AI Operating System Reference Architecture,” marrying Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform and Blackwell Ultra GPUs with Palantir’s AIP and Foundry software. Vera Rubin, unveiled at the ISC High Performance 2026 conference in Hamburg, delivers a single rack system capable of over seven exaflops of AI compute. Memory bandwidth is 2.8 times that of the predecessor Blackwell generation. Agencies operating critical infrastructure can now run advanced AI models locally, keeping sensitive data away from commercial cloud providers. Nvidia’s own open-source Nemotron models are also included in the bundle.
Across the Pacific, the Australian infrastructure provider Firmus Technologies is building the Batam campus, which will rely on Nvidia’s Vera-Rubin and Grace-Blackwell platforms when it goes live in early 2027. The project marks a departure from Nvidia’s traditional sales model: instead of charging upfront for hardware, Nvidia has adopted a revenue-sharing arrangement. Firmus will sell cloud-based compute capacity, and Nvidia takes a cut of those service revenues alongside its standard hardware fees. Firmus expects binding capacity agreements totaling double-digit billions of dollars during the first six years, with the full eight-year contract run valued at roughly $30 billion.
The growing thirst for compute also demands a physical backbone. NN, Inc. has secured multi-year contracts to supply stainless steel liquid cooling components for Nvidia’s data center racks. The deal triples the size of NN’s existing product line for Nvidia and will be manufactured at its facility in Wuxi, China, serving the Asian supply chain including Taiwan and Vietnam.
Should investors sell immediately? Or is it worth buying Nvidia?
The bullish narrative around these long-term investments, however, is competing with warning lights in the chip rental market. Hourly costs for Nvidia’s flagship B200 GPU plunged from $6.11 to $4.22 in just three weeks during June. Gil Luria of D.A. Davidson sees this as a sign that the AI cycle may be cresting, with compute supply growth outstripping demand and threatening Nvidia’s pricing power. On top of that, JPMorgan and Bernstein estimate that export restrictions and Chinese competition could cost the company as much as $16 billion in lost sales.
The stock is feeling the pressure. Trading at €168.94, it sits just above its 100-day moving average of €168.78. The relative strength index of 38.4 is approaching oversold territory, and the shares have shed about 7.5% in the past week. On a monthly basis the decline is roughly 11%, though a 27% year-to-date gain remains intact.
Management is fighting back with capital returns. Last quarter Nvidia spent around $20 billion on share buybacks and dividends. The board has since authorised an additional $80 billion for the existing repurchase programme and quadrupled the quarterly dividend to 25 cents per share.
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Despite the recent price weakness, 95% of analysts still rate Nvidia a buy, citing the Vera Rubin generation as a multi-year demand catalyst. Interestingly, Palantir’s stock has recovered more vigorously than Nvidia’s of late, suggesting investors are rotating into the software layer of the AI ecosystem. The next major event for Nvidia comes on August 26, 2026, when it reports fiscal second-quarter results. The market will be looking for updates on the Vera processor ramp and the commercial availability of the Rubin architecture in the second half of the year.
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