Meta已签署协议，将租用Firmus在东南亚运营的数据中心所提供的AI芯片。Firmus是一家建设这些数据中心的澳大利亚公司，双方宣布了上述消息。
Meta has signed deals to rent AI chips at data centers in Southeast Asia run by Firmus, an Australian company that builds them, the two companies announced.
Meta已预留一定规模的算力，并可视需要进一步增加。此外，该公司计划使用这些芯片开展研究、开发并训练其AI模型。双方均未披露财务细节，也未透露Meta将使用哪些站点。
Meta has reserved a certain amount of capacity and can add more if needed. Also, the company plans to use the chips to research, build, and train its AI models. Neither company shared the financial details or revealed which sites Meta will use.
Meta此前已与Firmus在澳大利亚开展合作；在墨尔本，Meta使用英伟达GB300系统。Firmus表示，这是赤道以南规模最大的英伟达Blackwell Ultra芯片集群。
Meta already works with Firmus in Australia; in Melbourne, it uses Nvidia GB300 systems, which Firmus says make up the largest group of Nvidia’s Blackwell Ultra chips south of the equator.
新站点将在Firmus的HyperCube设备内采用英伟达DSX设计。每台设备均在位于新南威尔士州乡村地区的工厂生产，并配备独立的冷却和供电设备。最新型号还可支持英伟达即将推出的Vera Rubin芯片。
The new sites will feature Nvidia’s DSX design inside Firmus’s HyperCube units. Each unit is made in a factory in rural New South Wales and comes with its own cooling and power equipment. The latest model can also support Nvidia’s upcoming Vera Rubin chips.
Meta基础设施工程副总裁Gaya Nagarajan表示：“随着我们在亚太地区构建下一代AI，我们将Firmus视为长期战略基础设施合作伙伴。”
“We see Firmus as a long-term strategic infrastructure partner as we build for the next generation of AI across Asia-Pacific,” said Gaya Nagarajan, Meta’s vice president of engineering for infrastructure.
此次协议签署于Firmus启动股票发行簿记前一周，其股票市场首秀日期定为10月6日。
The agreement comes a week before Firmus starts the bookbuild for its share market debut on 6 October.
该公司还计划募资约50亿美元，这将使其成为澳大利亚规模第二大的上市项目。
Moreover, the company plans to raise about $5 billion, which would make it Australia’s second-largest listing.
Firmus在澳大利亚、新加坡、印度尼西亚和马来西亚拥有七座AI站点，其中两座已投入运行。本月早些时候，OpenAI成为马来西亚两座站点的锚定客户，使Firmus的已签约算力超过900MW。
Firmus has seven AI sites in Australia, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia, and two of them are up and running. Earlier this month, OpenAI became an anchor customer at two Malaysian sites, lifting Firmus’s contracted capacity above 900MW.
今年6月，Firmus还与英伟达达成协议，将在印度尼西亚的巴淡岛建设一座360MW的站点，最多可容纳17万枚英伟达芯片。
In June, it also agreed with Nvidia to build a 360MW site on the Indonesian island of Batam, with room for up to 170,000 Nvidia chips.