Cisco & NVIDIA: AI Factory in Australia

On February 23, 2026, Cisco, in partnership with Sharon AI and NVIDIA, launched the first "Cisco Secure AI Factory" in Australia. The cluster is built on 1,024 top-tier Blackwell Ultra GPU accelerators.

This is a response to the corporate demand for "sovereign AI." Companies no longer want to send sensitive corporate data overseas to public cloud servers. Local high-performance infrastructure ensures that intellectual property and trade secrets remain within national jurisdiction.

Source: Cisco Newsroom