James Manning’s Sharon AI in Deal with Nvidia to Boost Cloud Clout
Australian Financial Review
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- Date Published
- 14 June 2026
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- 2
- Australian
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- 14 June 2026, 08:01 am
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The Firmus Technologies rival is vying for dominance in the Australian data centre space through its tie-up with Jensen Huang’s Nvidia.
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Australian neocloud provider Sharon AI has secured a six-year infrastructure agreement with Nvidia to scale high-performance computing capabilities within Australia. This partnership facilitates the deployment of advanced GPU capacity essential for increasingly complex AI workloads and frontier model development. While primarily a commercial expansion, the deal signifies a significant increase in sovereign compute hardware, which is a prerequisite for scaling AI capabilities and requires oversight within national safety and governance frameworks. The development underscores the rapid proliferation of the physical infrastructure necessary to support advanced AI systems in the Australian region.
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TechnologyData centresPrint articleAyesha de KretserSenior reporterJun 14, 2026 – 5.04pmNasdaq-listed neocloud company Sharon AI has inked an agreement with Taiwanese chip maker Nvidia that it says will make it more competitive in the Australian data centre space as it battles for dominance against Oliver Curtis’ Firmus Technologies.The six-year deal with Nvidia boosts Sharon’s AI cloud infrastructure and access to high-performance computing in Australia, as companies’ artificial intelligence workloads increase in complexity and data loading, making reliable GPU capacity and flexible access models more crucial.Loading...SaveLog in or Subscribe to save articleShareCopy linkCopiedEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookCopy linkCopiedShare via...Gift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? LoginLicense articleFollow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.Find out moreRead MoreData centresNvidiaAIAndrew PennFetching latest articles