{"id":846692,"date":"2026-08-07T10:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/846692\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T10:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:54:10","slug":"firmus-to-accelerate-roll-out-of-ai-data-centres-after-2-9-billion-cap-raising-says-co-ceo-oliver-curtis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/846692\/","title":{"rendered":"Firmus to accelerate roll-out of AI data centres after $2.9 billion cap raising, says co-CEO Oliver Curtis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firmus Technologies co-founder and chief executive Oliver Curtis says the company will pick up the pace on its ambitious plans to build artificial intelligence factories across Australia and Asia Pacific, after officially closing the IPO-hopeful\u2019s biggest equity funding round to date.<\/p>\n<p>The $US2 billion ($2.9 billion) capital raising, priced at $230 per share, was first reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/street-talk\/ai-factory-hotshot-firmus-set-to-raise-us2b-calls-investor-meeting-20260708-p60doq\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by Street Talk in July<\/a>, and had required an extraordinary general meeting investor vote last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firmus Technologies co-founder and chief executive Oliver Curtis says the company will pick up the pace on its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-846692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}