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OpenAI just anchored an Australian company’s Malaysian data centres

An Australian company will build data centres in Malaysia and fill them with American chips. It will sell the output to an American company. Its co-chief executive calls this the moment Asia-Pacific stops consuming intelligence and starts producing it.

Firmus announced the partnership from Sydney on Tuesday. OpenAI will contract dedicated compute from two Firmus sites in Malaysia under a multi-year deal. That makes it an anchor customer, and takes total contracted capacity past 900MW.

“This multi-year partnership marks the moment Asia-Pacific becomes a producer of intelligence, not just a consumer of it,” said Tim Rosenfield, co-founder and co-chief executive.

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The hardware is Nvidia. Firmus will deploy Vera Rubin NVL72 systems on Nvidia’s DSX platform. The customer is American. The tokens serve OpenAI users worldwide, as the company says plainly.

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