NVIDIA Plans Up to 2-Gigawatt AI Factory Buildout in Australia

NVIDIA is collaborating with Australian NVIDIA Cloud Partners and AI infrastructure partners to expand land, power and shell capacity designed to host multiple generations of NVIDIA DSX AI factories, with a buildout of up to 2 gigawatts by 2027, according to an NVIDIA announcement dated September 9, 2026.

The participating providers named in the announcement are Firmus, Sharon AI, IREN, Megaport, ResetData, CDC, NEXTDC and AirTrunk. They will operate the AI factories, with NVIDIA delivering the DSX platform, accelerated computing, networking, software and ecosystem support. NVIDIA (NVDA ) said the full-stack AI factories will provide high-performance AI compute for Australian startups, universities, researchers, enterprises, developers and AI-native companies.

“AI factories turn energy into intelligence — the essential resource of the AI economy,” said Raj Mirpuri, vice president of global AI clouds and infrastructure ecosystem at NVIDIA. Mirpuri described DSX as a full-stack platform compatible with the NVIDIA CUDA ecosystem and enhanced through software over the life of the infrastructure, and he called DSX-based AI factories a new investable asset class. He said the Australian partnerships will allow the infrastructure to support multiple generations of NVIDIA compute while expanding local access to accelerated computing and NVIDIA Nemotron open models.

According to NVIDIA, DSX is a full-stack AI factory platform spanning facilities infrastructure, computing, networking, software and reference designs, designed to help operators serve a broad range of workloads and customers, improve performance and utilization, and extend the useful life of their assets. The company said growing AI adoption across industries is increasing demand for high-performance computing, and it cited Australia’s sustainable energy and digital infrastructure, deep technology talent and reputation as a trusted global economic partner as a foundation for the expansion.

AI Factory Buildouts Across Australia

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. Cofounder and co-CEO Oliver Curtis described Project Southgate as a tangible commitment to building Australia’s AI future, saying the factories will give Australian businesses, researchers and innovators access to computing capacity at home while positioning the country to meet growing AI demand across 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 DSX platform to support startups, enterprises and research organizations. Cofounder and CEO James Manning said building on DSX equips Sharon AI to bring gigawatt-scale AI factories to Australian enterprises, researchers, government and AI natives.

IREN is combining NVIDIA’s DSX AI factory architecture with its own expertise across power, land, data centers, GPU deployment and infrastructure operations. Cofounder and co-CEO Daniel Roberts said pairing IREN’s vertically integrated platform with the DSX reference architecture provides a repeatable blueprint to bring capacity online at scale, and that IREN is applying the blueprint across its development portfolio, including its 800-megawatt Bundey campus in South Australia.

Megaport is expanding access to NVIDIA accelerated computing through its wholly owned subsidiary Latitude.sh to support the inference needs of AI enterprises. According to the announcement, combining the Latitude.sh compute platform with Megaport’s global software-defined network brings AI processing closer to users, reducing latency and improving responsiveness. CEO Michael Reid said the investments help Australian organizations build and deploy AI locally and scale globally through Megaport’s worldwide platform.

ResetData is providing NVIDIA accelerated computing through its AI cloud platform for enterprise, government and research customers that require high-performance compute and Australian data residency. Joint CEO Marcel Zalloua cited the company’s work with ProCan at the Children’s Medical Research Institute and said ResetData is partnering with NVIDIA to develop sovereign, purpose-built infrastructure solutions for Australian businesses and researchers.

CDC has developed AI-ready data center infrastructure across Australia and New Zealand for high-density AI and high-performance computing workloads, with facilities featuring direct liquid-to-chip cooling designed to support NVIDIA accelerated computing infrastructure at scale. Founder and CEO Greg Boorer said CDC operates more than 550 megawatts of capacity across the two countries, with a further 800 megawatts under construction, and that its facilities run on 100% renewable electricity and use zero-water advanced cooling technologies certified for NVIDIA accelerated computing infrastructure.

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. Chief customer and commercial officer David Dzienciol said 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.

AirTrunk is expanding AI-ready powered shells across the region, including direct-to-chip liquid-cooling infrastructure designed to support high-density AI workloads. Chief customer and innovation officer Damien Spillane said AI is reshaping hyperscale infrastructure in Australia, driving new approaches to location, capacity, cooling, power and connectivity.

Nemotron Open Models in Use

Alongside the infrastructure expansion, NVIDIA said broader access to accelerated computing and its Nemotron open models will enable Australian organizations to develop locally relevant models, applications and agents. According to the announcement, 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 its specialized clinical knowledge to build voice-driven AI for healthcare. “NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra gives us the flexibility to build and post-train models for the real complexity of healthcare,” said Yu Liu, Heidi’s cofounder and chief technology officer. Liu said combining Nemotron with Heidi’s clinical training and fine-tuning capabilities helps the company reason across patient histories, clinical context and guidelines at scale.

Atlassian is advancing semantic search in Rovo with NVIDIA AI, work the company says makes enterprise search more intelligent, context-aware and capable of surfacing more relevant insights across complex data and workflows. Guihong Cao, head of engineering for Rovo + AI at Atlassian, described NVIDIA’s accelerated computing infrastructure and open model ecosystem as foundational to how Atlassian builds and delivers AI, citing uses from supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning to powering intelligent experiences in Rovo.

NVIDIA said the combined efforts connect AI infrastructure with the open models and software that turn computing capacity into applications, enabling innovators across research, industry and the public sector to build and scale AI in Australia.