<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>
<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> (approximately $215 million) at an <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> ($1.2 billion) valuation from investors, including Nvidia. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Firmus is developing an energy-efficient “AI factory” network of data centers in Australia and Tasmania, a project it dubs Project Southgate. It is using Nvidia’s reference designs for building these efficient data centers. These new data centers will use Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform — the chip giant’s next-gen AI computing system succeeding its Blackwell architecture, expected to ship in the second half of 2026.</p>
<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>
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