Firmus / SMC / Australia
Firmus / SMC Southgate Melbourne
Firmus’s Melbourne AI factory at CDC Data Centres runs NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 for Meta, with about 42 MW deployed.
Meta runs NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems here (Firmus, 29 Sep 2026). Firmus stays at the CDC Melbourne site; the 150 MW Southgate expansion plan is dropped.
Site evidence
Source per value- Operator GPU-cloud provider tied to this physical site.
- Firmus / SMC 1
- City / locality Source-named city, metro or locality. Null when only a county, state or dedicated regional facility is disclosed; no guessed city.
- Melbourne 1
- Country Country of the physical deployment.
- Australia 1
- Evidence status Status supported by the cited evidence. An operational site may also have future expansion; target dates alone do not prove opening.
- Operational 3
- Facility / partner Named host, owner or development partner; role shown where stated.
- CDC Data Centres 1
- Disclosed power MW Read together with Power basis. This may be an IT lease, campus plan, facility capacity or a delivered phase; values must not be summed.
- 42 4
- Power basis Scope, timing and qualification of the disclosed MW. Operational status does not imply all listed MW are live.
- About 42 MW deployed when the Southgate partnership with CDC ended (W.Media, 6 Oct 2026). 4
- GPU platform Site-specific deployed or announced platform. Expansion and future deployment are explicitly marked.
- NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 3
- Disclosed GPUs Published count, approximation or lower bound. Read GPU count basis for deployed versus planned scope.
- 18,500 1
- GPU count basis Exact scope of the GPU count, including lower bounds and target years. Counts are not a current availability inventory.
- Initial cluster ordered in October 2025. 1
- Interconnect Site-specific networking named in the source; no inference from a provider-wide offer.
- Not published
- Cooling Cooling design or installed method at the site; expansion scope retained where relevant.
- Not published
- Evidence date Date of the cited status statement or reporting period. Null means an undated page; accessed dates remain in sources.
- 2026-09-29 3
- Scope notes Research reconciliation, historical qualifications and unresolved delivery questions, with sources.
- Meta runs NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems here (Firmus, 29 Sep 2026). Firmus stays at the CDC Melbourne site; the 150 MW Southgate expansion plan is dropped. 3
- Locality latitude ° Open-Meteo / GeoNames locality centroid, rounded to four decimals. Not a facility coordinate.
- -37.814 2
- Locality longitude ° Open-Meteo / GeoNames locality centroid, rounded to four decimals. Not a facility coordinate.
- 144.963 2
- State / region Source-disclosed state, province or county when the city is withheld.
- Victoria 1
- Delivered MW MW Explicitly operating or delivered power, at the evidence date. Power basis defines IT, facility or phase scope. Null if not verified.
- 42 4
- Planned / contracted MW MW Announced expansion or total contracted power; may include delivered phases. Read the power basis and notes; never sum with delivered MW.
- Not published
- Site scope Editorial classification from the cited operator/site evidence. General cloud presence does not assert site-level GPU inventory; historical projects are not active deployments.
- GPU / AI deployment 1
Sources & access dates
- Firmus / SMC: Southgate Melbourne site evidence accessed 2026-11-11
- Open-Meteo / GeoNames: Melbourne, Victoria locality center accessed 2026-11-11
- Firmus and Meta agreements, 29 Sep 2026 accessed 2026-11-11
- W.Media: Firmus and CDC end Southgate partnership, 6 Oct 2026 accessed 2026-11-11
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