Australian AI infrastructure company Firmus has signed a multi-year deal to supply dedicated computing capacity from two data centres in Malaysia to OpenAI, taking its total contracted capacity beyond 900MW.
The agreement makes the ChatGPT developer an anchor customer for Firmus, and the arrangement would support the rollout of further capacity across its AI Factory platform.
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Firmus described its overall contracted customer portfolio as underpinning the next stage of its regional growth.
Malaysia is a new market for the group, which currently operates in Singapore, Australia and Indonesia. Across those four countries, Firmus covers seven AI factories.
Two of the sites are running in Australia and Singapore. Five are under development and due to be ready for service within 24 months.
Firmus plans to deploy Nvidia Vera Rubin across Asia-Pacific at scale.
The sites built under the partnership will use the Nvidia DSX AI Factory Platform to combine Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale systems with the HyperCube platform of Firmus.
This platform combines mechanical systems, liquid cooling and electrification into a repeatable design that is produced as well as prefabricated in regional New South Wales.
OpenAI compute strategy VP Sachin Katti said: “We’re excited to work with Firmus as we expand our global compute capacity. These new data centres in Malaysia will help us serve growing demand for OpenAI’s products across the region and around the world. We look forward to bringing this capacity online together.”
Firmus co-founder and co-CEO Tim Rosenfield said: “This multi-year partnership marks the moment Asia-Pacific becomes a producer of intelligence, not just a consumer of it.
“Firmus has spent seven years building for this – a footprint that runs from Southeast Asia to Australia, and the manufacturing, technology and teams to bring it online at speed.”
Firmus also intends to set up an Australian AI Access Program for eligible organisations and researchers, with a proposed focus on education, science, agriculture, resource efficiency, energy and climate resilience.
In July 2026, OpenAI announced plans to invest more than $30bn in a new data centre complex in Effingham County, near Savannah, Georgia, US, aimed at addressing growing requirements for AI services.
