SM+ Opens $300m AI Data Center SMX01 in Jakarta

A $300 million data center went live in Jakarta on 1 November 2026, adding 21MW of AI-ready capacity to Indonesia's digital infrastructure. Operator SM+ announced the opening of the facility, named SMX01, this week.

"SMX01 has officially commenced operations on 1 November 2026, adding 21MW of AI-ready data center capacity to Indonesia's digital infrastructure landscape," the company said on LinkedIn.

The launch closes a two-year build cycle. Here is how the project took shape.

Who built it, and when?

SM+ first announced the facility in September 2024 as a joint venture between three parties: LG Sinar Mas, SM+ Data Centers, and Korea Investment Real Asset Management. Construction started in March 2025.

LG Sinar Mas is itself a 50:50 joint venture. Its parents are LG CNS, a South Korean data center and IT services company, and SM+.

The operator had previously outlined different capacity figures. The company said the site would reach a total capacity of 27MW, with a first-phase target of 6MW.

What does the facility actually offer?

SMX01 sits in Jakarta's central business district. It is carrier-neutral and provides four network entry points.

Cooling is the distinguishing feature. The site offers liquid-cooling capabilities alongside conventional air-cooling systems. That mix matters for AI workloads, because high-density racks generate heat that air alone struggles to remove.

The numbers point the same way. SMX01 supports high-density workloads at up to 130kW per rack. That figure is far above the range typical of legacy enterprise halls, and it defines the facility's target market: AI training and inference rather than general enterprise IT.

Who is the anchor tenant?

Taiwanese cloud and AI infrastructure provider Konst has leased capacity at the facility. On LinkedIn, the company said it has taken on 15MW of liquid-cooled capacity at SMX01.

That lease covers most of the 21MW now in operation. It also marks a milestone for the tenant: this is Konst's first deployment in Indonesia.

Konst is a young company. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Nangang, Taipei, it operates across GPU data center construction, GPU cloud services, bare-metal leasing, colocation services, and AI infrastructure. Its network spans nine countries across three continents and comprises 42MW of operational and under-development capacity. Konst builds its platform on Nvidia hardware.

What does this change for SM+?

For SM+, the launch extends an established Indonesian footprint. The Jakarta-based company is a digital infrastructure and services platform backed by local conglomerate Sinar Mas and founded in 2023.

It runs two divisions:

• SM+ Data Centers owns and operates 25 data centers across Indonesia, amounting to roughly 40MW of operational and under-development IT load capacity.
• SM+ Technology Solutions works as an IT service provider and systems integrator.

SMX01 more than doubles that IT load figure on paper. The 21MW now live at the new site sits alongside the 40MW spread across the existing 25 facilities.

What does this change for Indonesia's AI market?

The launch adds substantial AI-specific capacity to a market competing for regional workloads. The 130kW-per-rack specification and liquid-cooling support mean the facility can host the densest GPU deployments now shipping. Konst's 15MW commitment shows foreign AI infrastructure providers see Indonesian demand worth serving on local soil.

The remaining 6MW of announced phase capacity, plus the balance toward the 27MW total, gives SM+ room to land further tenants. No additional customers beyond Konst were named at launch.