Meta contracts for AI compute capacity at Firmus Southeast Asia data centers, building on existing Australia agreements.

Meta has signed on to lease AI compute capacity from Firmus, an Australian data center developer, for upcoming deployments in Southeast Asia. The agreement builds on an existing partnership in which Meta is leasing Nvidia GB300 NVL72 compute from Firmus' Melbourne data center.

Firmus is developing a series of "AI factories" across Southeast Asia in partnership with data center operator DayOne. One facility in Batam, Indonesia, is expected to house 170,000 GPUs. The company is also establishing data centers in Malaysia, where OpenAI is set to be a customer. These deployments will integrate Firmus' HyperCube modular data center solution. In August 2026, Firmus announced it would acquire the manufacturing business behind HyperCube from Benmax.

The compute capacity being delivered to Meta will be based on Nvidia's full-stack DSX platform.

Gaya Nagarajan, Meta's vice president of engineering and infrastructure, said: "We see Firmus as a long-term strategic infrastructure partner as we build for the next generation of AI across Asia-Pacific and expand the infrastructure supporting our AI research and model development efforts – the foundation of personal superintelligence."

Tim Rosenfield, Firmus co-founder and co-CEO, added: "We're building for partners at the forefront of AI, whose models demand exceptional performance and who want to get the most compute from every watt of energy. That's the engineering challenge Firmus was founded to solve. Meta's AI research and model development activities require infrastructure capable of supporting some of the world's most demanding AI workloads. Firmus' AI factory build-out across Asia-Pacific has the scale to support and grow these ambitions."

Founded in 2019, Firmus initially focused on crypto and high-performance compute, specializing in immersion cooling, but today describes itself as a pure AI factory builder. The company has projects under development across multiple regions: three facilities in Tasmania and additional sites in Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Earlier this month, Firmus was reported to be seeking up to $5 billion in an initial public offering. A capacity agreement with OpenAI signed earlier this month brings Firmus' total contracted capacity to more than 900MW.