SCX enters into sovereign inferencing deal with Equinix

SouthernCrossAI (SCX), which bills itself as Australia’s full-stack sovereign AI infrastructure company, is now providing sovereign AI inferencing capacity to the Equinix Fabric AI ecosystem.

The deal makes its ASIC-powered inference nodes discoverable and accessible to enterprise, government agencies, and developers across the Equinix ecosystem.

Through Equinix Fabric, Equinix's software-defined interconnection service, organisations across the Asia-Pacific region can now establish secure, low-latency, private connections directly to SCX's ASIC-accelerated inference nodes - without transiting public internet infrastructure or routing data through overseas hyperscaler environments.

The partnership builds on SCX's existing operational node at Equinix's SY5 IBX data centre in Sydney and positions Equinix Fabric as the primary interconnection backbone for SCX's planned multi-site national network.

Future nodes confirmed at Equinix facilities across Australia will progressively extend sovereign inferencing capacity to enterprise and government customers throughout 2026 and beyond.

"Joining Equinix Fabric AI ecosystem means that any organisation connected to Equinix Fabric can now reach our sovereign inferencing nodes with a private, direct connection," said David Keane, SCX’s co-founder and chief executive.

"This is how we scale Australian AI — not by moving data overseas, but by making world-class inference available where Australian data already lives."

"SCX represents exactly the kind of innovative sovereign AI provider that enterprises and government agencies need to access through Equinix Fabric - a locally governed, high-performance inferencing capability that meets Australia's data sovereignty requirements," said Chris Johnston, Equinix Australia’s interim managing director.

"Together, we are building the infrastructure for Australia's AI future."

The company also announced that its national infrastructure expansion will be powered by SambaNova’s next-gen SN50 Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU), which it claimed is the world’s fastest purpose-built agentic AI inferencing chip.