Australian sovereign AI infrastructure company SCX.ai and data intelligence vendor DDN announced a partnership on August 24, 2026, to expand what the companies describe as Australia's largest sovereign AI inferencing cloud [reference:18]. The deal pairs SCX's ASIC-accelerated infrastructure with DDN's Infinia data platform, and it lands three days after SCX began trading on the Australian Securities Exchange following a fully underwritten $40 million IPO.
The combined offering
The combined offering is aimed at Australian enterprises, government agencies, and research institutions that need AI inference to run onshore. SCX and DDN frame it as a secure, multi-tenant "AI factory" built to accelerate inference and lower the cost per token while keeping models, workloads, and data inside Australia. The data layer is the point of the integration: DDN says Infinia delivers sub-millisecond latency and up to 27-times faster KV cache loading, which is what keeps large context windows and agentic workloads from stalling on I/O.
SCX's infrastructure bet
SCX's infrastructure runs on purpose-built SambaNova SN40L AI processors rather than GPUs, and it is air-cooled, avoiding the large water volumes that conventional AI data center cooling consumes. The design bet is that more usable AI compute can be extracted from the power and physical footprint already available inside existing commercial data centers.
Testing SCX disclosed ahead of its ASX listing put its SambaNova-based systems at roughly 2.5-times to 5.6-times the performance per watt of GPU-based systems across selected stable inference workloads, depending on the model and hardware configuration tested. These are vendor-disclosed figures, but they are the crux of SCX's pitch to a country where power and water constraints are real.
Commercial traction
The company enters the public market with early commercial traction. Contracted annual recurring revenue reached $6.5 million at the end of July 2026, up 20.9 percent since May, and the platform now counts more than 400 active users. SCX's first sovereign AI node is already operational at the Equinix SY5 data center in Sydney. The DDN integration is what lets that data layer keep pace with the concurrency and high-throughput inferencing demands SCX is now selling against.
Sovereign AI rationale
SCX's argument to customers is legal as much as technical. Australia has no comprehensive domestic data residency law, and the US CLOUD Act lets American authorities compel access to data held by US-headquartered providers even when that data sits on a server in Sydney. SCX positions itself in the gap for government, financial services, and healthcare workloads that cannot go offshore.