Nvidia Partners in $2.9 Billion Australia Data Center Drive
(Bloomberg) -- Nvidia Corp. is partnering with Australian startup Firmus Technologies Ltd. to create a massive fleet of renewable energy-powered artificial intelligence data centers across the country.
Construction is already underway on two data centers in Melbourne and Tasmania for Project Southgate, an A$4.5 billion ($2.9 billion) undertaking that will utilize 150 megawatts of power, Firmus said in a statement. Facilities will use Nvidia’s GB300 chips and are expected to come online by April.
The project could eventually be expanded to use 1.6 gigawatts of power at a total investment of A$73.3 billion by 2028, the company said. That would support the development of 5.1 gigawatts of new wind, solar and hydropower capacity, according to the firm. That would be equivalent to about 5% of the nation’s total installed power capacity, according to BloombergNEF data.
Building clean energy data centers could help boost demand for massive renewable projects that have been mooted for Australia’s vast stretches of empty terrain rich in sunlight and wind.
“Project Southgate is a blueprint for how Australia can lead the world in scalable, sovereign AI infrastructure,” Oliver Curtis, co-chief executive officer for Firmus, said in a statement.
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