Supercomputers/Systems/Firmus Southgate Launceston
Australia · under construction · mixed
Firmus Southgate Launceston
Also known as Project Southgate Tasmania
Operated by Firmus Technologies at St Leonards Southgate Campus .
Phase 1 seed dataset, compiled by hand. These rows were built from public operator, laboratory and vendor sources. A mechanical second-reader pass has since fetched every cited source: 1092 of 1153 systems have a readable citation that names them, and 40 are genuinely weakly sourced. Every claim carries its source and a confidence tier. Treat anything below verified as a lead, not a citation.
Measured performance
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- Per watt
- - GF/W
Figures are as last publicly reported for the configuration described below, not a live measurement. Where a system was upgraded in place, the post-upgrade configuration is shown and the earlier one appears in the timeline.
What this machine is made of
One row per supplier relationship. “Supplier at build” is the company that shipped the part at the time; where that company has since been acquired, the parent it rolls up to today is shown beside it. That distinction is what makes ticker-level aggregation possible across a thirty-year dataset.
| Role | Part | Supplier at build | Quantity | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Integrator | - Firmus modular liquid-everywhere AI Factory platform on a five-hectare St Leonards site | Firmus Technologies | - | Reported | w.media |
| Accelerator | - 36,000 NVIDIA GPUs across two stages with Spectrum-X Ethernet; GPU model not stated on the cited pages | NVIDIA | - | Reported | firmus.co |
AI datacenter metrics
Figures beyond an accelerator count, each with who stated it. What can and cannot be compared across AI datacenters.
| Metric | Value | As of | Basis | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accelerators | 36,800 accelerators | 2026-03 | Design target | 'Approximately 36,800' GB300 GPUs for the Tasmania site, completion stated as late 2026 (Firmus, 2 Mar 2026). Plan. | firmus.co |
The read
Firmus's flagship Project Southgate AI factory on a five-hectare site in St Leonards, Launceston, Tasmania, approved by Launceston Council in 2025 and described by the ABC in July 2026 as under construction. Firmus says the campus will house 36,000 NVIDIA GPUs across two stages; W.Media reports Stage 1 as 44 MW growing to 90 MW with a further 300 MW second stage planned, and Spectrum-X Ethernet networking. Firmus's October 2025 Southgate page puts Tasmania and Melbourne together at up to 150 MW and 54,000 GB300. Capacity figures come from the trade report relaying Firmus rather than a Firmus page, so the tier is reported.
Timeline
- 2025-09 Announced source
Site & facility
St Leonards Southgate Campus
- Location
- St Leonards, Launceston, TAS, Australia
- Cooling
- Liquid cooling (HyperCube)
Change history
- 2026-10-04 Added AI datacenter metrics for firmus-southgate-launceston
- 2026-10-02 Added Firmus Southgate Launceston
Source check
We fetched this system's own citations and recorded whether each page actually mentions it. This is a corroboration signal, not a fact check, and it is published so you can see how well the sourcing holds up rather than take it on trust.
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.