Sharon AI (NASDAQ: SHAZ) to deploy 600PB VAST AI OS for sovereign cloud
Rhea-AI Filing Summary
SharonAI Holdings Inc. filed an 8-K to share a press release about expanding its strategic partnership with VAST Data to power AI factories across Australia and Asia-Pacific. Sharon AI plans to deploy 600PB of the VAST AI Operating System as the data foundation for its AI cloud infrastructure.
The companies state this will support sovereign AI workloads for government, enterprise, research and AI-native customers, with capacity equivalent to the data needs of about 100,000 GPUs based on a benchmark of 6PB per 1,000 GPUs. The disclosure is furnished under Regulation FD and is not deemed filed for liability purposes.
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Sharon AI scales sovereign AI cloud with 600PB VAST deployment.
Sharon AI is standardizing its AI cloud on the VAST AI Operating System, committing to deploy 600PB across its infrastructure. Management frames this as the foundational data layer for sovereign AI services in Australia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.
The press release highlights support for government, enterprise, research and AI-native customers, with capacity benchmarked to the data needs of about 100,000 GPUs. The focus is on keeping sensitive workloads onshore while maintaining high performance for training, inference and agentic AI systems.
The news signals a long-term infrastructure strategy rather than immediate financial impact, as no revenue, contract value, or timing details are disclosed here. Future company filings may clarify monetization, customer adoption, and capital expenditure associated with this large-scale deployment.
8-K Event Classification
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Regulation FD regulatory
sovereign AI infrastructure technical
DASE architecture technical
multi-tenancy technical
global namespace technical
forward-looking statements regulatory
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Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.
On June 15, 2026, SharonAI Holdings Inc. (the “Company”) issued a press release announcing its expanded relationship with VAST Data to power AI factories across Australia and Asia-Pacific. A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference. By filing this Current Report on Form 8-K and furnishing the information contained herein, the Company makes no admission as to the materiality of any information in this report that is required to be disclosed solely by reason of Regulation FD. The information presented in Item 7.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K and Exhibit 99.1 shall not be deemed to be “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, unless the Company specifically states that the information is to be considered “filed” under the Exchange Act or specifically incorporates it by reference into a filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act.
The description of the press release is only a summary and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of such document, which is included as an exhibit to this Current Report on Form 8-K and which is incorporated herein by reference.
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| SHARONAI HOLDINGS INC. | ||
| By: | /s/ James Manning | |
| Name: | James Manning | |
| Title: | CEO | |
| Date: June 15, 2026 | ||
Exhibit 99.1
Sharon AI Expands Partnership with VAST Data to Power AI Factories Across Australia and Asia-Pacific
Sharon AI to deploy 600PB of the VAST AI Operating System as the data foundation for its AI cloud infrastructure
New York, USA – June 15th, 2026 – SharonAI Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: SHAZ), a leading Australian Neocloud, and VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, today announced an expanded strategic partnership under which Sharon AI will deploy 600PB of the VAST AI Operating System across its AI cloud infrastructure.
The commitment makes the VAST AI Operating System the foundational data layer for Sharon AI’s sovereign AI infrastructure, serving government, enterprise, research, and AI-native customers across Australia and Asia-Pacific.
This deployment represents one of the largest and most advanced sovereign AI data foundations in the Asia-Pacific region. It positions Sharon AI at the forefront of Australia’s push to build independent, high-performance AI capability – keeping the nation’s most sensitive workloads, intellectual property, and strategic data firmly onshore while delivering the raw power needed for next-generation training, inference, and agentic AI systems.
Using a proven benchmark of approximately 6PB of optimized AI storage per 1,000 GPUs for demanding large-scale workloads, the new 600PB VAST deployment provides the scalable data backbone equivalent to supporting the data needs of ~100,000 GPUs. This is a transformative leap that cements Sharon AI’s AI Cloud platform as one of the most substantial sovereign AI clouds in Australia and Asia-Pacific.
For sovereign and regulated environments, control over data location, movement, and access is non-negotiable – and performance cannot be sacrificed. The VAST AI OS was engineered precisely for this challenge. Its breakthrough DASE architecture creates a true parallel distributed system that eliminates traditional bottlenecks. A single global namespace means every processor can reach all data instantly, without copying or moving petabytes around. Built-in multi-tenancy delivers strong isolation, guaranteed performance SLAs, and separate controls per customer – ideal for a cloud provider serving multiple sovereign tenants on shared infrastructure.
The companies will continue close engineering collaboration to optimize the platform as Sharon AI’s customer workloads and AI factory ambitions scale rapidly.
“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: a rock-solid, high-performance foundation we can scale confidently as demand for sovereign AI across Australia and Asia-Pacific accelerates. This is how we build Australia’s AI future – powerful, secure, and proudly local.”
“Every breakthrough Sharon AI enables – in research, medicine, industry, or national capability – runs on data, and it only moves as fast and safely as the foundation beneath it,” said Renen Hallak, Founder and CEO of VAST Data. “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. The VAST AI OS turns massive data estates into real-time intelligence assets, all while respecting sovereign boundaries. This is the future of AI infrastructure.”
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About Sharon AI
SharonAI Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: SHAZ) and its subsidiaries (“Sharon AI”), a leading Australian Neocloud, is a High-Performance Computing company focused on Artificial Intelligence and Cloud GPU/CPU Compute Infrastructure. Our AI Cloud platform and compute infrastructure is accelerating the build of AI factories and sovereign AI solutions, powering the next wave of accelerated computing adoption. For more information, visit www.sharonai.com.
About VAST Data
VAST Data is the AI Operating System company – powering the next generation of intelligent systems with a unified software infrastructure stack that was purpose-built to unlock the full potential of AI. The VAST AI OS consolidates foundational data and compute services and agentic execution into one scalable platform, enabling organizations to deploy and facilitate communication between AI agents, reason over real-time data, and automate complex workflows at global scale. Built on VAST’s breakthrough DASE architecture – the world’s first true parallel distributed system architecture that eliminates tradeoffs between performance, scale, simplicity, and resilience – VAST has transformed its modern infrastructure into a global fabric for reasoning AI. Learn more at vastdata.com and follow VAST Data on LinkedIn, YouTube and X.
Contacts
Sharon AI Media Enquiries:
Ross Barrows – Head of Capital Strategy & Investor Relations
Ross.barrows@sharonai.com
Zachary Nevas
IMS Investor Relations
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sharonai@imsinvestorrelations.com
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Forward-Looking Statements
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| ● | Sharon AI’s ability to engage with additional potential customers; |
| ● | Expansion of Sharon AI’s data center footprint and capacity; and |
| ● | The strengthening of Sharon AI’s partner network. |
In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. Because forward-looking statements relate to the future, they are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict and many of which are outside of our control. You are cautioned that such statements are not guarantees of future performance and that actual results or developments may differ materially from those set forth in these forward-looking statements. Therefore, you should not rely on any of these forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include, among others, all of the risks described in the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC. Additional assumptions, risks and uncertainties are described in detail in our registration statements, reports and other filings with the SEC, which are available at www.sec.gov.
The forward-looking statements and other information contained in this news release are made as of the date hereof and Sharon AI does not undertake any obligation to update publicly or revise any forward-looking statements or information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, unless so required by applicable securities laws.
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