By Adam Clark
Nvidia stock was rising early Monday after a difficult week during which the chip maker's shares fell below its recent floor of $200. News of another major data-center deal could be helping the stock.
The shares were up 1.4% at $195.22 in early trading. The stock has fallen 7.7% over the previous five trading days heading into Monday, hit by a widespread selloff in the chip sector.
However, there are still plenty of signs of strong demand for Nvidia's processors. Australian firm Firmus signed an eight-year partnership with Nvidia to build a dedicated 360 megawatt AI facility in Batam, an Indonesia island off the coast of Singapore, it said in a statement Monday. The agreement includes procuring up to 170,000 Nvidia graphic processing units through 2027 and 2028.
Firmus said in April it raised $505 million in strategic equity investment led by Coatue with participation from Nvidia.
Firmus will sell Nvidia-powered cloud services, with Nvidia receiving both standard product revenue and a share of the cloud revenue on the supported capacity. Firmus projects it will receive $25 billion to $30 billion from committed agreements from customers during the first six years of the partnership.
Nvidia was named a Barron's stock pick on May 13, when shares were trading at $226.
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