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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