Australian neocloud Sharon AI announced an expanded strategic partnership with VAST Data under which Sharon AI will deploy 600PB of the VAST AI Operating System across its AI cloud infrastructure. The scale of the deployment provides the scalable data backbone equivalent to supporting the data needs of ~100,000 GPUs.
The commitment makes the VAST AI Operating System the foundational data layer for Sharon AI's sovereign AI infrastructure, serving government, enterprise, research, and AI-native customers across Australia and Asia-Pacific.
This deployment represents one of the largest and most advanced sovereign AI data foundations in the Asia-Pacific region. It also positions Sharon AI at the forefront of Australia’s push to build independent, high-performance AI capabilities.
“Our customers refuse to choose between keeping their data sovereign and running AI at full speed – they need both at the highest level,” Sharon AI CEO James Manning said in a statement. “Standardizing on the VAST AI Operating System at this unprecedented 600PB scale gives us exactly that: a rock-solid, high-performance foundation we can scale confidently as demand for sovereign AI across Australia and Asia-Pacific accelerates."
Read the full press release here.