NVIDIA Expands Australia AI Infrastructure With 2-Gigawatt Buildout by 2027
NVIDIA is expanding its artificial intelligence infrastructure footprint in Australia through a partnership with local cloud providers and data center operators, with participating companies targeting up to 2 gigawatts of AI infrastructure capacity by 2027.
The initiative brings together NVIDIA and Australian infrastructure companies including Firmus, Sharon AI, IREN, Megaport, ResetData, CDC, NEXTDC and AirTrunk. The goal is to expand the land, power and data center capacity needed to deploy multiple generations of NVIDIA DSX AI factories.
Reuters also reported that NVIDIA announced the Australian partnership as demand for AI computing continues to accelerate worldwide, making the project part of the broader expansion of large-scale AI infrastructure across the Asia-Pacific region.
NVIDIA DSX Is at the Center of the Buildout
The planned infrastructure will be built around NVIDIA DSX, a full-stack platform designed to help operators build and run AI factories.
Unlike conventional data center expansion, DSX brings together computing, networking, software, facilities infrastructure and reference designs. NVIDIA says the platform is designed to improve performance and utilization while extending the useful life of AI infrastructure across multiple generations of hardware.
Under the Australian arrangement, the participating infrastructure providers will operate the AI factories, while NVIDIA supplies the DSX platform, accelerated computing, networking, software and ecosystem support.
NVIDIA has increasingly positioned DSX as a blueprint for large-scale AI factories. The company announced the platform in 2026 as a way to integrate computing, software, facilities and partner technologies into a single infrastructure framework.
Eight Infrastructure Partners Are Expanding AI Capacity
The Australian expansion involves several companies working across different parts of the AI infrastructure stack.
Firmus is expanding its Project Southgate initiative, with NVIDIA-powered AI factories aimed at hyperscale and AI-native demand in Australia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.
Sharon AI plans to deploy up to 68,000 NVIDIA GPUs, connected using NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand and Spectrum-X Ethernet networking. The infrastructure is intended to serve startups, enterprises and research organizations.
IREN is combining NVIDIA’s DSX architecture with its capabilities in power, land, data centers, GPU deployment and infrastructure operations. Its Australian plans include work connected to its 800-megawatt Bundey campus in South Australia.
Megaport, through its wholly owned subsidiary Latitude.sh, is expanding access to accelerated computing for AI enterprises, with an emphasis on bringing processing closer to users to reduce latency.
ResetData is developing AI infrastructure focused on enterprises, government and research customers that need high-performance computing and Australian data residency.
Meanwhile, CDC, NEXTDC and AirTrunk are expanding infrastructure designed for increasingly dense AI workloads. Their plans include advanced cooling, high-density facilities and additional powered capacity suitable for AI factories.
Why Australia Is Becoming an AI Infrastructure Hub
The expansion reflects a larger shift in the AI industry: access to computing power is becoming just as important as access to AI models.
Training and running advanced AI systems requires enormous amounts of electricity, computing hardware, networking capacity and specialized cooling. NVIDIA says Australia’s energy resources, digital infrastructure, technology workforce and position as a trusted economic partner give the country a strong foundation for expanding AI infrastructure.
The Australian buildout is also part of a much wider NVIDIA strategy to establish gigawatt-scale AI infrastructure in different regions. The company has announced DSX-based initiatives in countries including South Korea and Japan as demand for AI compute continues to rise.
NVIDIA’s latest financial results underscore the scale of that demand. The company reported $89 billion in Data Center revenue for its second quarter of fiscal 2027, up 117% from a year earlier.
Local Companies Could Get More Access to AI Compute
The infrastructure expansion is not only about building data centers.
NVIDIA says greater access to accelerated computing and its Nemotron open models will help Australian startups, universities, researchers, enterprises and developers build AI models, applications and agents locally.
Australian companies are already using NVIDIA technology for specialized applications.
Healthcare AI company Heidi is combining NVIDIA Nemotron models with its clinical expertise to develop AI systems capable of working across patient histories, clinical context and medical guidelines.
Atlassian, meanwhile, is using NVIDIA AI technology in Rovo to improve semantic search and make enterprise information easier to discover across complex workflows and data.
That creates a connection between the physical infrastructure being built across Australia and the applications that ultimately use it.
The Bigger AI Infrastructure Race
The Australian announcement highlights how the AI race is moving beyond GPUs themselves.
Companies now need access to land, electricity, cooling, networking, data centers and software platforms capable of operating huge AI clusters. NVIDIA’s DSX strategy is designed to bring those layers together and make large AI infrastructure projects easier to deploy and operate.
The company and its partners are pursuing similar large-scale infrastructure initiatives elsewhere. NVIDIA and IREN, for example, announced plans earlier in 2026 to support up to 5 gigawatts of DSX-aligned AI infrastructure across IREN’s global data center pipeline over time.
Australia’s planned buildout therefore represents more than a single data center project. It is another example of the industry’s shift toward dedicated AI factories designed specifically for training, inference and increasingly sophisticated AI workloads.
What Happens Next
The immediate focus will be on expanding power, land and data center capacity and bringing additional NVIDIA-powered AI factories online.
The participating companies are expected to develop and operate infrastructure across Australia, while NVIDIA provides the underlying accelerated computing and DSX platform.
If the planned projects reach the stated scale, Australia could gain substantially more domestic AI computing capacity by 2027, giving local companies and researchers greater access to advanced infrastructure while also positioning the country to serve growing AI demand across the Asia-Pacific region.
