Meta taps Australia's Firmus for AI computing capacity in Southeast Asia
Australia's Firmus said on Tuesday it had signed AI infrastructure agreements with Facebook parent Meta Platforms for graphics processing unit compute capacity at its data centre facilities in Southeast Asia.
Australia's Firmus has signed agreements with Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, to provide graphics processing unit compute capacity at its data centre facilities in Southeast Asia. The deal supports Meta's AI research, model development, and training.
Firmus will provide contracted capacity and expansion options built on Nvidia's full-stack DSX platform. This builds on Meta's existing deployment of Nvidia GB300 NVL72 systems at Firmus' Melbourne data centre.
The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Firmus is preparing for a $5 billion initial public offering to fund growth in AI projects, according to Investing.com.
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