{"id":3110209,"date":"2026-04-07T11:46:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=3110209"},"modified":"2026-04-07T12:28:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:28:36","slug":"firmus-the-southgate-ai-datacenter-builder-backed-by-nvidia-hits-5-5b-valuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/04\/07\/firmus-the-southgate-ai-datacenter-builder-backed-by-nvidia-hits-5-5b-valuation\/","title":{"rendered":"Firmus, the &#8216;Southgate&#8217; AI data center builder backed by Nvidia, hits $5.5B valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asia AI data center provider Firmus on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/firmus.co\/newsroom\/firmus-raises-usdusd505-million-in-strategic-equity-investment-led-by-coatue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced<\/a> a fresh $505 million raise led by Coatue at a $5.5 billion post-money valuation. With this round, Firmus has raised $1.35 billion in six months, it says.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Singapore-based data center company previously raised <a href=\"https:\/\/firmus.co\/company-news\/firmus-closes-usd330m-raise-with-nvidia-joining-as-an-investor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">AU$330 million<\/a>&nbsp;(approximately $215 million) at an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartcompany.com.au\/startupsmart\/firmus-raises-330-million-build-ai-factory-tasmania-1-9-billion-valuation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">AU$1.85 billion<\/a>&nbsp;($1.2 billion) valuation from investors, including Nvidia. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Firmus is developing an energy-efficient \u201cAI factory\u201d network of data centers in Australia and Tasmania, a project it dubs Project Southgate. It is using Nvidia&#8217;s reference designs for building these efficient data centers. These new data centers will use Nvidia&#8217;s Vera Rubin platform \u2014 the chip giant&#8217;s next-gen AI computing system succeeding its Blackwell architecture, expected to ship in the second half of 2026.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Firmus originally provided cooling technologies for Bitcoin mining and has <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/01\/16\/ai-cloud-startup-runpod-hits-120m-in-arr-and-it-started-with-a-reddit-post\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">become yet another<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/01\/26\/nvidia-invests-2b-to-help-debt-ridden-coreweave-add-5gw-of-ai-compute\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">crypto-roots-turned-AI provider<\/a> company that investors love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia-backed Asia AI data center provider Firmus has now raised $1.35 billion in six months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133574633,"featured_media":2814832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tc-featured-article":false,"tc-header-option":"","tc-breaking-news":false,"tc-article-brief":true,"carmot_uuid":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-04-07T18:47:01Z","apple_news_api_id":"dd97d155-01bc-4e46-88f9-f2b15a116400","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-04-07T19:27:52Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A3ZfRVQG8TkaI-fKxWhFkAA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"tc_subtitle":"","tc_featured_image_disabled":false,"tc_exclude_from_rss_feed":false,"tc_exclude_from_content_rivers":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[577047203,20429],"tags":[53640,35186,577267246],"tc_region":[],"tc_event":[],"tc_storyline_tax":[],"coauthors":[577235617],"class_list":["post-3110209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-startups","tag-data-centers","tag-nvidia","tag-in-brief"],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.1 (Yoast SEO v25.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Firmus, the &#039;Southgate&#039; 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