Situated in the Bell Bay Industrial Precinct, the Firmus George Town AI Campus (also designated as Project GEE01 or the Long Reach Data Centre) is a proposed high-density computing development under the broader Project Southgate initiative.
Located on the cleared platform of the former proposed Gunns Pulp Mill site within the George Town municipality, the project encompasses two dedicated data hall buildings, an administrative office, and maintenance facilities. Purpose-built for advanced AI training and inference, the campus takes advantage of existing industrial grid infrastructure, including three 220kV TasNetworks transmission lines traversing the land, and utilizes energy-efficient direct-to-chip liquid cooling designed to operate predominantly in dry mode to minimize water consumption.
Firmus - formerly known as Firmus Grid - was founded in 2019, and has been offering immersion-cooled AI systems running OpenStack and Kubernetes-based software from Canonical.
June 20, 2026 Firmus Technologies
Australian AI cloud and data center company Firmus is expanding its presence in Tasmania, with plans for a campus in Bell Bay and a potential second site in Wesley Vale. A development application has been lodged for the Bell Bay project, which the company describes as an “AI factory” to be built...
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June 23, 2023 Firmus Technologies
ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC), a data centre provider based in APAC, has invested in Firmus Technologies and plans to collaborate to introduce a GPU-focused Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) named Sustainable Metal Cloud (SMC). Set to debut in Singapore, this service is tailored for...
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