SharonAI Holdings Inc. and its subsidiaries (“Sharon AI”), a prominent Australian neocloud provider, has announced plans to deploy a 1,000-unit NVIDIA B200 GPU cluster at NEXTDC’s Tier IV M3 Data Center in Melbourne, Australia. This move represents a major milestone in strengthening Australia’s sovereign AI infrastructure and expanding access to large-scale, high-performance computing across the region.
Through this deployment, Sharon AI deepens its collaboration with NEXTDC while accelerating the delivery of next-generation AI infrastructure tailored for complex and data-intensive workloads. As demand for sovereign, locally hosted AI capabilities continues to rise, this initiative positions Australia to better support enterprise, government, and research-driven innovation at scale.
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“NEXTDC is pleased to be expanding our engagement with Sharon AI, Lenovo and VAST Data as we deliver the latest generation of accelerated computing infrastructure in Australia,” said David Dzienciol, Chief Commercial and Customer Officer at NEXTDC. “The NEXTDC M3 facility is purpose-built to support this 1K B200 cluster, with the power density, advanced cooling and operational resilience required for large-scale AI workloads.”
At the core of this deployment is NVIDIA’s DGX Blackwell platform, which introduces a substantial leap in computational performance. Powered by eight Blackwell GPUs interconnected through fifth-generation NVLink, the platform delivers up to three times faster training performance and as much as fifteen times higher inference performance compared to previous generations. Consequently, it is specifically designed to handle demanding workloads such as large language models (LLMs), advanced recommendation engines, and real-time conversational AI systems.
Moreover, the rollout is being executed under Sharon AI’s existing Lenovo TruScale agreement, enabling a flexible and scalable expansion model. By leveraging Lenovo’s high-density server architecture alongside VAST Data’s high-performance storage fabric, Sharon AI creates a seamless develop-to-deploy AI pipeline. As a result, traditional infrastructure bottlenecks are removed, allowing organizations to move faster from experimentation to production.
“This engagement with Sharon AI and NEXTDC marks a significant step in delivering sovereign AI infrastructure at scale in Australia. The 1,000-unit B200 cluster at NEXTDC’s M3 facility provides the foundation Australian organisations need to compete globally,” said Damien Fox, country manager Australia and New Zealand, VAST Data. “VAST Data’s storage fabric and InsightEngine remove the silos and latency that typically limit large AI systems, allowing NVIDIA Blackwell to operate as intended. The result is sovereign compute that enterprise, government, and research organisations can rely on to build and run serious AI workloads across the region.”
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In addition, this expansion significantly strengthens Sharon AI’s growing GPU portfolio, which already includes NVIDIA A40, L40s, H100, H200, and now B200 architectures. Looking ahead to 2026, the company plans to deploy B300 and GB300 systems, reinforcing its commitment to staying at the forefront of accelerated computing in the Asia-Pacific market.
“This expansion is about more than just raw capacity; it is about providing the specialized, sovereign architectural depth that the next era of AI requires,” said James Manning, CEO and Chairman of Sharon AI. “By bringing 1,000 B200 GPUs to Australia, we are ensuring that AI natives, research, enterprise and government organizations in the Asia-Pacific region have immediate access to world-class compute.”
Through this strategic deployment, Sharon AI continues to position itself as a key infrastructure provider, enabling Australia to compete globally while maintaining control over critical AI capabilities.
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