SharonAI Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: SHAZ) announced an expanded partnership with VAST Data to deploy 600 petabytes of the VAST AI Operating System across its cloud infrastructure in Australia and Asia-Pacific.

The deployment will serve as the data foundation for Sharon AI's sovereign AI infrastructure, supporting government, enterprise, research, and AI-native customers across the region. According to the press release, the storage capacity is equivalent to supporting approximately 100,000 GPUs based on industry benchmarks.

Sharon AI, an Australian cloud computing company, positions the deployment as part of Australia's efforts to build independent AI capabilities while keeping sensitive workloads and data within national borders. The VAST AI Operating System will provide the data layer for training, inference, and AI systems.

"Our customers refuse to choose between keeping their data sovereign and running AI at full speed – they need both at the highest level," said James Manning, Co-Founder and CEO of Sharon AI. "Standardizing on the VAST AI Operating System at this unprecedented 600PB scale gives us exactly that."

VAST Data's system uses what the company calls DASE architecture, designed to eliminate traditional data bottlenecks through a parallel distributed system. The platform includes multi-tenancy features for cloud providers serving multiple customers on shared infrastructure.

"As the data foundation for Sharon AI's sovereign cloud, we are proud to partner with them to support Australia's hardest and most strategic AI ambitions," said Renen Hallak, Founder and CEO of VAST Data.

The companies plan to continue engineering collaboration as Sharon AI scales its operations across the region. The partnership represents one of the larger sovereign AI data deployments in the Asia-Pacific market.