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Lenovo has provided local neocloud Sharon AI with a 1,000-GPU NVIDIA B200 cluster at NextDC’s M3 data centre, labelling it its “largest-ever” TruScale infrastructure-as-a-service engagement.
The cluster is expected to provide Australian and Asia Pacific (APAC) enterprises, government organisations, and research institutions access to “world-class accelerated computing”, according to Lenovo.
Specifically optimised for massive-scale workloads, the cluster uses NVIDIA’s DGX Blackwell architecture featuring eight Blackwell GPUs interconnected via a fifth generation NVLink, delivering up to three times the training performance and 15 times the inference performance in comparison to previous generation systems.
Lenovo said the rollout was an example of how its TruScale offering — providing fully integrated solutions as-a-service on a pay-as-you-go model — enables flexible and rapid infrastructure expansion.
Sharon AI combines the vendor’s high-density server engineering with high-performance storage fabric from Vast Data to offer a unified develop-to-deploy pipeline that Lenovo said removes traditional bottlenecks in the AI lifecycle.
The neocloud’s CEO and co-founder, James Manning, stated the 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 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.”
Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group Asia Pacific president Sumir Bhatia agreed with Manning’s sentiments, referring to the deployment as “enabling this next phase of sovereign AI capability”.
“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,” he added.
Throughout 2026, Lenovo is expected to continue its support of Sharon AI with next-generation B300 and GB300 platforms when they are available.
The two companies have worked together previously for the last several years, with their partnership beginning in 2021.
Last month, Sharon AI and Cisco announced they would launch Australia’s first Cisco Secure AI Factory in partnership with NVIDIA.
