{
  "id": 10591347,
  "title": "Meta taps Australia's Firmus for AI computing capacity in Southeast Asia",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/meta-taps-australias-firmus-for-ai-computing-capacity-in-southeast",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-29T02:52:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Economic Times Tech",
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    "url": "https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/meta-taps-australias-firmus-for-ai-computing-capacity-in-southeast-asia/articleshow/134554559.cms"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "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.\n\nFirmus 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.\n\nThe 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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      {
        "outlet": "CNA - Business",
        "title": "Meta taps Australia's Firmus for AI computing capacity in Southeast Asia",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/meta-taps-australias-firmus-for-ai-computing-capacity-in-southeast-10555793",
        "published": "2026-09-28T23:10:43.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Investing.com",
        "title": "Meta taps Australia’s Firmus for AI computing capacity in Southeast Asia",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/meta-taps-australias-firmus-for-ai-computing-capacity-in-southeast",
        "published": "2026-09-28T23:12:34.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Tech in Asia",
        "title": "Meta signs GPU capacity deal with AI firm Firmus",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/meta-signs-gpu-capacity-deal-with-ai-firm-firmus",
        "published": "2026-09-29T00:06:35.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}