Sharon AI signs 72MW AI infrastructure deal with Nvidia and 600PB agreement with Vast Data
June 17, 2026
Sharon AI signs 72MW AI infrastructure deal with Nvidia and 600PB agreement with Vast Data
Australia-based AI cloud company Sharon AI has signed two major agreements this week, marking a significant expansion of its artificial intelligence infrastructure capabilities. The company inked a six-year AI infrastructure agreement with Nvidia and a separate 600PB deployment deal with Vast Data for its AI Operating System, positioning itself as a key player in the sovereign AI space across Australia and Asia-Pacific.
The agreement with Nvidia will see the two companies deploy 72MW of AI data center capacity in Australia, utilizing the Nvidia DSX AI factory design. The deployment is expected to scale up to 40,000 Grace Blackwell GPUs. The deal is structured through a revenue-sharing and credit supply model, under which Sharon AI will sell Nvidia cloud services, while Nvidia earns both standard product revenue and a share of the cloud revenue on the supported capacity. Following this deployment, Sharon AI will have a total of 132MW of capacity, of which 102MW is already contracted to end customers. The company expects to have more than 55,000 total Nvidia GPUs deployed by mid-2027, a sharp increase from just 432 GPUs online in September 2025, as per its IPO filing.
In addition to the Nvidia agreement, Sharon AI has signed on to deploy 600PB of the Vast AI Operating System across its AI cloud infrastructure, making the AI OS the foundational data layer of its cloud. This deployment will provide a scalable backbone equivalent to supporting the data needs of approximately 100,000 GPUs. “Our customers refuse to choose between keeping their data sovereign and running AI at full speed – they need both at the highest level,” said James Manning, co-founder and CEO of Sharon AI. “Standardizing on the Vast AI Operating System at this unprecedented 600PB scale gives us exactly that: a rock-solid, high-performance foundation we can scale confidently as demand for sovereign AI across Australia and Asia-Pacific accelerates. This is how we build Australia’s AI future – powerful, secure, and proudly local.”
“Every breakthrough Sharon AI enables – in research, medicine, industry, or national capability – runs on data, and it only moves as fast and safely as the foundation beneath it,” said Renen Hallak, founder and CEO of Vast Data. “As the data foundation for Sharon AI’s sovereign cloud, we are proud to partner with them to support Australia’s hardest and most strategic AI ambitions. The Vast AI OS turns massive data estates into real-time intelligence assets, all while respecting sovereign boundaries. This is the future of AI infrastructure.” Vast Data's AI OS is already used by companies including Firmus, CoreWeave, Nscale, Buzz HPC, Fluidstack, GMI Cloud, Akamai Technologies, and Crusoe, among others.
Sharon AI has signed a handful of major contracts in recent months, including a $950 million cloud agreement with an unnamed technology company and a $1.25 billion capacity agreement with ESDS Software Solutions. These deals underscore the growing demand for AI infrastructure in the region and highlight Sharon AI’s aggressive push to build out its capacity. The agreements with Nvidia and Vast Data are expected to significantly enhance the company’s ability to offer sovereign AI services, addressing the dual needs of data security and high-performance computing for customers across Australia and the broader Asia-Pacific region.
Source: datacenterdynamics
