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NVIDIA names eight Australian partners and a 2GW target
NVIDIA published eight partner names, a national capacity ceiling and campus megawatts for Australia. The Malaysian compute deal announced a day earlier carried no location, megawatt or ringgit figure.
In brief
- NVIDIA said on 9 September 2026 that it is working with eight Australian partners to expand land, power and shell capacity for its DSX AI factories, targeting up to 2 gigawatts by 2027.[1]
- The release names every partner and several site figures, including an 800-megawatt IREN campus in South Australia, up to 68,000 GPUs at Sharon AI and more than 550 megawatts operating at CDC.[1]
- A day earlier, Firmus said OpenAI would take capacity from two Malaysian sites without naming a state, megawatt figure, value or date. Firmus appears in both.[1][2]
NVIDIA published eight Australian partners, a 2GW ceiling and campus megawatts
NVIDIA announced on 9 September 2026 that it is working with eight Australian cloud and infrastructure partners to expand the land, power and building capacity needed to host its DSX AI factories. It put a number on the ambition: up to 2 gigawatts by 2027.[1]
The partners are Firmus, Sharon AI, IREN, Megaport, ResetData, CDC, NEXTDC and AirTrunk. NVIDIA says they will operate the AI factories while it supplies the DSX platform, computing, networking and software.[1]
The reason this matters in Kuala Lumpur is the timing. A day earlier, Firmus announced that OpenAI would contract dedicated compute from two of its AI Factory sites in Malaysia. That statement named no state, no megawatts, no value and no date.[2]
What the Australian release actually discloses
The 2-gigawatt figure is a ceiling rather than a floor. NVIDIA writes that the collaboration supports up to a 2-gigawatt buildout by 2027, a target for the partner ecosystem as a whole and not a commitment by any single operator. No total investment figure appears anywhere in the release.[1]
Underneath that ceiling the release is unusually specific. IREN says it is applying the DSX architecture across its 800-megawatt Bundey campus in South Australia. Sharon AI says it is deploying up to 68,000 NVIDIA GPUs. CDC says it runs more than 550 megawatts, with a further 800 under construction.[1]
The same week, a very different Malaysian disclosure
Firmus is the through-line. The Australian release describes it as expanding its Project Southgate initiative and building NVIDIA-powered AI factories for hyperscale and AI-native demand across Australia and Asia Pacific. Its own statement of 8 September 2026 said OpenAI had become an anchor customer taking capacity from two Malaysian sites.[1][2]
The Malaysian statement gave one hard number, a portfolio total of more than 900 MW contracted across every customer and country. It did not say which state the sites sit in, how many of those megawatts are Malaysian, what the agreement is worth, when either opens, or whether any Malaysian ministry or utility is involved.[2]
Two announcements, two different purposes
The honest caveat is that these are different documents. The Australian one is an ecosystem announcement with eight operators putting their own numbers on the record. The Malaysian one is a single company confirming a customer contract, and such contracts routinely withhold value and timing. Neither company says anything is being withheld.[1][2]
That does not remove the practical problem. Disclosure is what lets a country plan. Australian grid operators, councils and suppliers now have named campuses and megawatt figures to work from. Malaysian ones have a confirmed intention and nothing to locate it against, which is a weaker basis for approving a substation or forecasting load.[1][2]
Why Malaysia should care
Malaysia and Australia were named in NVIDIA-linked infrastructure announcements a day apart, and the two are not comparable in what they tell the public. Australia got eight named operators, a dated national ceiling and campus megawatts. Malaysia got two unnamed sites, which no contractor or utility planner can plan against.
Contractors, suppliers and state investment offices
Australia has named campuses and megawatt figures to bid into. Malaysia has a customer and no locatable project.[1][2]
Practical move: Ask Firmus for the Malaysian state, megawatts and service date before committing tender resources.
What Malaysians can do now
- Read the 2-gigawatt figure as an Australian ceiling by 2027, not committed capacity and not anything promised to Malaysia.
- Do not carry the 800 MW, 68,000 GPU or 550 MW figures across to Malaysia. Each belongs to a named Australian operator.
- Check any Malaysian AI infrastructure announcement for state, megawatts, value and date. The 8 September statement gave none.
What we still do not know
Announced capacity is not approved, built or located capacity
- How much of the Australian ceiling is contracted or approved rather than targeted.
- Where the two Malaysian Firmus sites are, how many megawatts they carry and when either opens.
- Whether any Malaysian ministry, agency or utility is party to the sites, since none is named.
- Whether Malaysian companies get the named model role NVIDIA gave Heidi and Atlassian in Australia.
Sources
- 1.NVIDIA Expands AI Infrastructure Capacity in Partnership With Australia's Data Center Ecosystem NVIDIA, 9 September 2026
- 2.Firmus surpasses 900 MW contracted capacity, adds OpenAI as anchor customer and expands into Malaysia Firmus Technologies, 8 September 2026
- 3.Press Kit Firmus Technologies
