NVIDIA Expands AI Infrastructure in Australia with Partners

NVIDIA has partnered with a range of Australian data center providers to expand the country's AI infrastructure, aiming to meet the growing demand for high-performance computing in multiple industries.

The initiative, spearheaded by NVIDIA Cloud Partners (NCPs) and AI infrastructure partners, will see the construction of AI factories across the nation. These facilities will support the deployment of NVIDIA's DSX platform, enabling organizations to develop and deploy AI models, applications, and agents.

"NVIDIA DSX is a full-stack AI factory platform designed to serve a broad range of workloads and customers," said Raj Mirpuri, vice president of global AI clouds and infrastructure ecosystem at NVIDIA. "This partnership will help Australian innovators build AI at home, while supporting additional power generation projects to meet regional and global demand."

Firmus, Sharon AI, IREN, Megaport, ResetData, CDC, NEXTDC, and AirTrunk are among the partners involved in this project. Each company brings unique expertise to the table, contributing to the development of AI infrastructure that is both sustainable and scalable.

Firmus, for example, is expanding its Project Southgate initiative, which aims to support hyperscale and AI-native demand across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. "Project Southgate represents a tangible commitment to building Australia's AI future," said Oliver Curtis, co-founder and co-CEO of Firmus. "Together with NVIDIA, we are developing AI factories that will give Australian businesses, researchers, and innovators access to world-class computing capacity at home."

Sharon AI is deploying up to 68,000 NVIDIA GPUs connected with NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand and Spectrum-X Ethernet networking. This setup will support startups, enterprises, and research organizations in their AI endeavors. "Australia has the energy, connectivity, and ambition to lead in AI. That potential only becomes real capability when organizations can access world-class compute without compromising on security or sovereignty," said James Manning, co-founder and CEO of Sharon AI.

IREN is partnering with NVIDIA to accelerate the deployment of large-scale AI factories by combining NVIDIA’s DSX AI factory architecture with its expertise in power, land, data centers, GPU deployment, and infrastructure operations. "Building AI infrastructure at scale requires integrating every layer: data centers, compute, and software," said Daniel Roberts, co-founder and co-CEO of IREN. "Combining IREN’s vertically integrated platform with the NVIDIA DSX AI factory reference architecture provides a repeatable blueprint to bring capacity online at scale."

Megaport is expanding access to NVIDIA accelerated computing through its wholly owned subsidiary, Latitude.sh, to support the inference needs of leading AI enterprises. "Megaport is proud to support Australia's growing AI infrastructure ecosystem as an Australian-founded global infrastructure provider," said Michael Reid, CEO of Megaport. "By investing in NVIDIA AI factories and expanding access to high-performance AI infrastructure, we help Australian organizations build and deploy AI locally, and scale globally through Megaport’s worldwide platform."

ResetData is building AI infrastructure in Australia, providing NVIDIA accelerated computing through its AI cloud platform for enterprises, government, and research customers that require high-performance compute and data residency. "At ResetData, we’ve proven that when Australian businesses and researchers like the team at ProCan at the Children’s Medical Research Institute have access to high-performance compute, they can deliver industry-leading results," said Marcel Zalloua, joint CEO of ResetData.

CDC has developed AI-ready data center infrastructure across Australia and New Zealand to support high-density AI and high-performance computing workloads. Its facilities feature advanced cooling technologies, including direct liquid-to-chip cooling, designed to support the deployment of NVIDIA accelerated computing infrastructure at scale. "CDC operates more than 550 megawatts of capacity across Australia and New Zealand, with a further 800 megawatts under construction and additional growth planned to support world-leading, high-density workloads for critical infrastructure," said Greg Boorer, founder and CEO of CDC.

NEXTDC has developed AI-ready data center infrastructure designed to support high-density AI factories, providing the power, cooling, connectivity, and physical infrastructure required to deploy increasingly compute-intensive AI systems. "NEXTDC operates and continues to develop liquid-cooled, high-density infrastructure, including AI factories built on NVIDIA DSX and interconnected with the world’s leading cloud platforms," said David Dzienciol, chief customer and commercial officer at NEXTDC.

AirTrunk is expanding AI-ready powered shells across the region, including direct-to-chip liquid-cooling infrastructure designed to support high-density AI workloads. "AI is reshaping hyperscale infrastructure in Australia, driving new approaches to location, capacity, cooling, power, and connectivity," said Damien Spillane, chief customer and innovation officer of AirTrunk. "AirTrunk is innovating to meet this demand while creating skilled expertise, capability, and economic value in Australia."

Organizations such as Heidi and Atlassian are leveraging NVIDIA’s Nemotron open models, datasets, and tools to build and customize AI across various applications. "NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra gives us the flexibility to build and post-train models for the real complexity of healthcare," said Yu Liu, cofounder and chief technology officer of Heidi. "Combining Nemotron with Heidi’s clinical training and fine-tuning capabilities helps us reason across patient histories, clinical context, and guidelines at scale, turning that information into actionable insights while preserving the trust and privacy patients expect."

"Atlassian is advancing Rovo’s semantic search with NVIDIA AI to make enterprise search more intelligent, context-aware, and capable of surfacing more relevant insights across complex data and workflows," said Guihong Cao, head of engineering for Rovo + AI at Atlassian. "From supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning to powering intelligent experiences in Rovo, NVIDIA provides the performance, economics, and flexibility we need to innovate responsibly at the scale our customers expect."

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