Firmus Technologies joins Nvidia's DGX Cloud Lepton marketplace, deploying 18,500 GB300 GPUs in Australia after raising $505M at a $5.5B valuation.

The data centre hotshot reckons its whopper new development will not slow its Australian rollout. But it will need to find a hell of a lot of money.

The company is courting smaller customers as it diversifies away from Australia, where its projects are receiving closer scrutiny from government and taxpayers.