When Firmus announced Meta agreements for GPU capacity in Southeast Asia on 29 September, the same release confirmed that Meta is “an existing Firmus customer in Australia”, running NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 racks at the Melbourne AI factory.
Tasmania’s data centre policy to date is the Data Centre Action Strategy, an investment attraction document last updated in 2018 by the Office of the Coordinator-General.
If Anthropic is serious about building infrastructure at this scale in Australia, a rigorous options assessment against what these operators have already recognised about Victoria and South Australia should have preceded any tender process.
