Sharon AI deploying massive NVIDIA B200 cluster

Australian AI-first cloud provider Sharon AI has commissioned a 1000 GPU NVIDIA B200 cluster at NextDC’s M3 data centre in Melbourne.

The deployment will be supported by Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group, marking the company’s largest TruScale Infrastructure-as-a-Service engagement to date.

Sharon AI CEO and co-founder James Manning said the expected deployment marks a major milestone in the development of sovereign AI capability in Australia.

“In partnership with Lenovo, we are bringing one of the region’s most advanced NVIDIA Blackwell GPU clusters online in Melbourne, giving Australian enterprises, government and researchers access to world-class AI infrastructure on home soil,” he said. “Beyond scale, this is about national capability, data sovereignty and accelerating innovation locally, while positioning Australia as a serious contender in the global AI economy.”

The deployment will utilise NVIDIA’s DGX Blackwell architecture, which has been optimised for massive-scale workloads including large language models and other AI-centric applications.

Sharon AI’s local GPU fleet already includes NVIDIA A40, L40s, H100 and H200 architectures, and the company is planning to deploy next-generation B300 and GB300 platforms as they become available.

Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group President Sumir Bhatia said Australia is well positioned to be a global leader in AI.

“Lenovo is proud to be enabling this next phase of sovereign AI capability,” he said. “By expanding our relationship with Sharon AI, we’re helping Australian organisations access cutting-edge AI compute on their own terms, securely and at scale.”

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