OpenAI has become an anchor customer of Sydney's Firmus, contracting compute from two Malaysian sites. Investor meetings for an ASX float start next week.

Firmus’ deal to sell compute to the ChatGPT maker from two planned data centres in Malaysia is not substantial enough to win over sceptical investors.

Australia's Firmus said on Tuesday it had signed a multi-year deal with OpenAI to supply computing capacity from two Malaysian data centres, making the ChatGPT maker an anchor…