Lenovo is proud to announce its role in delivering a 1,000-GPU NVIDIA B200 cluster for leading Australian Neocloud Sharon AI (NASDAQ:SHAZ), at NEXTDC’s Tier IV M3 data centre in Melbourne. This is Lenovo’s largest-ever TruScaleTM Infrastructure as a Service engagement, marking a significant step in the expansion of sovereign AI infrastructure in Australia.
The expected deployment of the 1000-GPU cluster will provide Australian and wider APAC enterprises, government organisations, and research institutions access to world-class accelerated computing.
“Australia is well poised to be a global leader in AI, and Lenovo is proud to be enabling this next phase of sovereign AI capability,” Sumir Bhatia, President, Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group, Asia Pacific says, “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.”
James Manning, CEO & Co-Founder, Sharon AI added, “This deployment marks a major milestone for 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. 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.”
This scalable rollout demonstrates how Lenovo TruScale Infrastructure as a Service enables flexible and rapid infrastructure expansion as business needs adapt and evolve. By integrating Lenovo’s high-density server engineering with VAST Data’s high-performance storage fabric, Sharon AI provides a unified develop-to-deploy pipeline that eliminates traditional bottlenecks in the AI lifecycle.
Leveraging NVIDIA’s DGX Blackwell architecture, that is specifically optimised for massive-scale workloads, including large language models (LLMs), sophisticated recommender systems, and real-time chatbots, this deployment offers a transformative leap in computational efficiency. Equipped with eight Blackwell GPUs interconnected via fifth-generation NVLink, this infrastructure delivers up to three times the training performance and 15 times the inference performance compared to previous-generation systems.
The Melbourne deployment builds on Lenovo’s ongoing support of Australia’s AI and high-performance computing ecosystem and further expands Sharon AI’s local GPU fleet, which already includes NVIDIA A40, L40s, H100 and H200 architectures. Looking ahead to 2026, Lenovo will continue to support Sharon AI’s roadmap with next-generation B300 and GB300 platforms as they become available.
