Meta Signs On to Lease AI Capacity at Firmus Southeast Asia Data Centers

Meta has entered into an agreement to lease AI compute capacity from Australian neocloud provider Firmus' forthcoming data center deployments in Southeast Asia, extending a partnership that already spans the Asia-Pacific region and underscoring the escalating infrastructure demands of frontier AI development. The deal builds on an existing arrangement under which Meta is already leasing Nvidia GB300 NVL72 compute from Firmus' Melbourne data center. The new Southeast Asian capacity will be based