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Firmus

Asia-Pacific AI cloud and AI factory builder (formerly Sustainable Metal Cloud)

Large clusters

Firmus operates GPU cloud capacity in Singapore (as SMC by Firmus) and Australia, with Malaysian and Indonesian sites under development, and offers H200, H100, A100 and L40S on demand or reserved, plus GB300 NVL72. It reports more than 900 MW of contracted capacity across seven AI factories in four countries. It is rated Silver in SemiAnalysis ClusterMAX 3.0, which notes Kubernetes and Slurm multi-node NVLink setups.

Best for: GPU training and inference capacity in Asia-Pacific.

ClusterMAX 3.0: Silver

  • – Publishes prices
  • – Serverless inference
  • – AMD GPUs
  • – European data centers
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Facts checked November 9, 2026 against the sources listed below. Firmus does not pay to appear here.

1 Legal nameFirmus Technologies Pty Ltd
2 HeadquartersSydney, Australia
3 Founded2019
4 Funding or listingPrivate. US$2B equity round at a post-money valuation above US$10.5B (Aug 2026).
5 How you rentOn-demand, Reserved clusters, Bare metal
6 Minimum commitmentNot disclosed
7 InterconnectFull-rail NVIDIA InfiniBand with BlueField DPUs; H200 nodes with 200–800 Gb/s InfiniBand or 400 Gb/s Ethernet with RoCE v2
8 OrchestrationSlurm, Kubernetes
9 GPUs offeredGB300 NVL72, H200, H100 SXM, A100, L40S
10 RegionsSingapore, Australia (Project Southgate, incl. Tasmania and South Australia); Indonesia and Malaysia under development
11 CertificationsNot disclosed
12 Customers and partnersClaims OpenAI as anchor customer at two Malaysian sites, agreements with Meta across Asia-Pacific, partnerships with Thinking Machines Lab and Fireworks AI, and AI Singapore as a case study (company newsroom, 2026).

Published prices

Firmus does not publish on-demand prices. Ask for a quote.

Where we recommend them

Worth knowing before you sign

  • No published GPU prices; access is by enquiry or reservation.
  • Its business increasingly centres on large contracted AI factories (OpenAI anchor, more than 900 MW contracted) rather than self-serve cloud.
  • No security certifications are stated on the pages checked.

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Sources

  1. Firmus
  2. Firmus AI Cloud compute
  3. Firmus about
  4. Firmus: US$2B equity round
  5. Firmus: 900 MW and OpenAI anchor
  6. SMC by Firmus
  7. SemiAnalysis ClusterMAX 3.0 ratings
  8. SemiAnalysis ClusterMAX 3.0 report

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