The initiative will support up to 2 gigawatts of AI factory capacity by 2027 and expand access to accelerated computing.
NVIDIA announced that it is collaborating with a growing ecosystem of Australian NVIDIA Cloud Partners (NCPs) and AI infrastructure partners to expand land, power and shell capacity designed to host multiple generations of NVIDIA DSX AI factories, supporting the nation’s growing demand for AI compute — with up to a 2-gigawatt buildout by 2027.
The participating providers will operate the AI factories, with NVIDIA delivering the DSX platform, accelerated computing, networking, software and ecosystem support.
Growing AI adoption across industries is increasing demand for high-performance computing. Expanding capacity in Australia will enable local innovators to develop models, applications and agents while supporting additional power generation projects to support regional and global demand for AI compute.
NVIDIA DSX is a full-stack AI factory platform spanning facilities infrastructure, computing, networking, software and reference designs. Compatible with the NVIDIA CUDA ecosystem and enhanced through software over the life of infrastructure, DSX helps operators serve a broad range of workloads and customers, improve performance and utilization, and extend the useful life of their assets — strengthening productivity, fungibility, durability, rentability and long-term economics.
This expanded capacity will give Australian innovators greater access to accelerated computing and NVIDIA Nemotron open models to develop locally relevant models, applications and agents, while supporting regional and global demand for AI compute.
Australia’s established sustainable energy and digital infrastructure, deep technology talent and reputation as a trusted global economic partner provide a strong foundation for startups, universities, researchers, enterprises, developers and AI-native companies to train, deploy and scale AI.
Building Australia’s AI factory infrastructure
Across Australia, NCPs and AI infrastructure partners Firmus, Sharon AI, IREN, Megaport, ResetData, CDC, NEXTDC and AirTrunk are already investing in NVIDIA DSX AI factories to deliver high-performance AI compute to organizations nationwide.
Firmus is expanding its Project Southgate initiative, developing NVIDIA-powered AI factories designed to support hyperscale and AI-native demand across Australia and Asia-Pacific.
Sharon AI is deploying up to 68,000 NVIDIA GPUs connected with NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand and NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking, using the NVIDIA DSX platform to support startups, enterprises and research organizations.
IREN is partnering with NVIDIA to accelerate deployment of large-scale AI factories by combining NVIDIA’s DSX AI factory architecture with IREN’s expertise across power, land, data centers, GPU deployment and infrastructure operations.
Megaport is expanding access to NVIDIA accelerated computing through its wholly owned subsidiary, Latitude.sh, to support the inference needs of leading AI enterprises. Combined with Megaport’s global software-defined network, Latitude.sh compute platform brings AI processing closer to users, reducing latency and improving responsiveness.
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 Australian data residency.
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.
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.
AirTrunk is expanding AI-ready powered shells across the region, including direct-to-chip liquid-cooling infrastructure designed to support high-density AI workloads.
From AI infrastructure to AI innovation
Greater access to accelerated computing is enabling Australia’s developers, AI-native companies and enterprises to build models, applications and agents tailored to local industries and communities.
Organizations including Heidi and Atlassian are using NVIDIA Nemotron open models, datasets and tools to build and customize AI across language, reasoning, speech and multimodal applications.
Heidi combines NVIDIA Nemotron models with Heidi’s specialized clinical knowledge to redefine voice-driven AI to establish a new benchmark for healthcare excellence.
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.
Together, these efforts connect AI infrastructure with the open models and software that turn computing capacity into applications. By expanding access across the full AI stack, NVIDIA and Australia’s AI ecosystem are enabling innovators across research, industry and the public sector to build and scale AI locally and bring Australian innovation to the world.
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