NEW YORK, Aug. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- SharonAI Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:SHAZ) and its subsidiaries (&#34;Sharon AI&#34; or &#34;the Company&#34;), a leading Australian Neocloud, today announced the successful delivery

<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="legendSpanClass">NEW YORK</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="legendSpanClass">Aug. 20, 2026</span> /PRNewswire/ -- SharonAI Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/quote/SHAZ">SHAZ</a>) and its subsidiaries (&#34;Sharon AI&#34; or &#34;the Company&#34;), a leading Australian <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="spanHghlt7169">Neocloud</span>, today announced the successful delivery and customer acceptance of an initial AI Cloud deployment for a global technology company with a major Asia-Pacific presence.</p>
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<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Customer acceptance marks the completion of a key milestone under the five-year AI Cloud infrastructure agreement, which has a total initial contract value of approximately US$950m. Acceptance also triggers release of cash security currently held in escrow.</p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The deployment is the first phase of this customer contract, and part of a series of additional NVIDIA GPU clusters that Sharon AI expects to deliver over the coming months. Under the agreement, Sharon AI is deploying AI Cloud solutions across multiple data centers in Australia, with revenue expected to commence in stages across the third and fourth quarters of 2026.</p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">&#34;Delivering AI infrastructure at scale requires coordinated execution across data center readiness, compute, storage, networking and customer integration,&#34; said James Manning, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sharon AI. &#34;This successful deployment demonstrates our ability to bring together a global partner ecosystem and coordinate specialist teams to meet customer delivery requirements. The capabilities and operating discipline developed through this project strengthen our delivery platform as we deploy future clusters, bringing our secured and contracted capacity online, and supporting durable long-term growth.&#34;</p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Sharon AI has secured 212MW of AI Factory capacity, of which 120MW is contracted under multi-year take-or-pay agreements. The accepted deployment represents further progress in bringing this secured and contracted capacity online. The Company continues to advance its AI Factory platform to address strong demand for high-performance, sovereign AI infrastructure across Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region.</p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><b xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">About Sharon AI</b></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Sharon AI (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/quote/SHAZ">SHAZ</a>) is a leading Australian <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="spanHghlt7bc9">neocloud</span> expanding access to artificial intelligence through trusted, secure and sovereign AI infrastructure. Through its AI Factory platform and colocation partners, Sharon AI enables organisations across Australia, New Zealand, and globally to confidently build, train and deploy AI at scale. For more information, visit <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" href="http://www.sharonai.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.sharonai.com</a>.</p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><b xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Contacts</b></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Media<br xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"></br><a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" href="mailto:media@sharonai.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">media@sharonai.com</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Investors<br xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"></br><a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" href="mailto:investors@sharonai.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">investors@sharonai.com</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><b xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Disclosure Information</b></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Sharon AI primarily uses its Investor Relations page (<u xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" href="https://sharonai.com/investors/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="spanHghlte530">https://sharonai.com/investors/</span></a></u>) to disclose material non-public information and to comply with its disclosure obligations under Regulation FD. The Company also notes that, at times, it uses other communication mediums including, but not limited to, its X account (sharon__ai) and/or LinkedIn account (sharon-AI) to disseminate information about the Company, and can be additional sources of information outside press releases, regulatory filings with the SEC and any other conference calls, webcasts, investor days, etc. that the company may hold.</p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><b xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Forward-Looking Statements</b></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">This press release may contain, and our officers and representatives may from time to time make, &#34;forward-looking statements&#34; within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which are not historical facts, and which are not assurances of future performance. Forward-looking statements are based only on our current beliefs, expectations and assumptions regarding the future of our business, future plans and strategies, projections, anticipated events and trends, the economy and other future conditions. In some cases you can identify these statements by forward-looking words such as &#34;believe,&#34; &#34;may,&#34; &#34;will,&#34; &#34;estimate,&#34; &#34;continue,&#34; &#34;anticipate,&#34; &#34;intend,&#34; &#34;could,&#34; &#34;should,&#34; &#34;would,&#34; &#34;project,&#34; &#34;strategy,&#34; &#34;plan,&#34; &#34;expect,&#34; &#34;goal,&#34; &#34;seek,&#34; &#34;future,&#34; &#34;likely&#34; or the negative or plural of these words or similar expressions or references to future periods. Forward-looking statements in this release include specific statements regarding the intended use of proceeds. Examples of such forward-looking statements include but are not limited to express or implied statements regarding Sharon AI&#39;s management team&#39;s expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future including, without limitation, statements regarding:</p><ul xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" type="disc"><li xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Service and product offerings;</li><li xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Receipt and use of proceeds;</li><li xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The deployment of assets and expansion of network procurement;</li><li xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Sharon AI&#39;s ability to engage with additional potential customers;</li><li xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Expansion of Sharon AI&#39;s data center footprint and capacity; and</li><li xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The strengthening of Sharon AI&#39;s partner network.</li></ul><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">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 &#34;Risk Factors&#34; section of the Company&#39;s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC and other reports subsequently 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 <u xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" href="https://www.sec.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="spanHghltfbcc">www.sec.gov</span></a></u>. </p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">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.</p>



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Sharon AI Successfully Delivers AI Cloud Deployment for Global Technology Customer

Sharon AI Lands $950M AI Cloud Contract, APAC Rollout Underway

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    <h3>Information</h3>
    <p>NEW YORK, Aug. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- SharonAI Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:SHAZ) and its subsidiaries (&amp;#34;Sharon AI&amp;#34; or &amp;#34;the Company&amp;#34;), a leading Australian Neocloud, today announced the successful delivery</p>
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    <p>Sharon AI Holdings (SHAZ) reports the successful delivery and acceptance of the initial AI Cloud deployment under a five-year, US$950 million contract with a major APAC technology firm. The milestone unlocks escrow cash and begins staged revenue in Q3-Q4 2026 as 212MW of AI Factory capacity is brought online, with 120MW under take‑pay. This enhances near-term visibility and supports further APAC deployments.</p>
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    <ul><li>Sharon AI announces AI Cloud deployment for APAC customer. Five-year contract value ~US$950M.</li><li>Customer acceptance triggers release of cash secured in escrow.</li><li>Phase one deploys across Australian data centers; revenue to commence in Q3-Q4 2026.</li><li>Sharon AI holds 212MW AI Factory capacity; 120MW contracted under take‑pay.</li><li>NVIDIA GPU clusters to be delivered; expands sovereign AI infra in APAC.</li></ul>
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    <h3>Companies Mentioned</h3>
    <ul><li><strong>Sharon AI Holdings Inc. (SHAZ)</strong>: Announced successful AI Cloud deployment; contract value disclosed; APAC expansion.</li><li><strong>NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA)</strong>: GPU clusters to be delivered; supports AI Factory capacity expansion.</li></ul>
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    <h3>Corporate Developments</h3>
    <p>Category: Corporate Developments. The release details a large multi-year contract and capacity expansion, signaling meaningful growth in Sharon AI&#039;s APAC AI infra footprint and near-term revenue visibility via staged deployments.</p>
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    <ul><li>Initial contract value of ~US$950 million with staged Q3-Q4 2026 revenue.</li><li>212MW AI Factory capacity secured; 120MW under multi-year take-or-pay.</li><li>Escrow cash release upon acceptance reduces near-term cash risk.</li><li>APAC sovereign AI infrastructure demand cited; potential for follow-on deployments.</li></ul>
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    <h3>Key Facts</h3>
    <ul><li>Initial AI Cloud contract value: approximately US$950 million.</li><li>Total AI Factory capacity secured: 212MW; 120MW contracted under take‑pay.</li><li>Revenue to commence in stages across Q3-Q4 2026.</li><li>Deployment across multiple Australian data centers as part of a five-year agreement.</li><li>Customer acceptance marks milestone; cash security released from escrow.</li></ul>
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    <p>Bullish near-term on revenue visibility and capacity deployment, with staged APAC revenue starting in late 2026.</p>
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<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="legendSpanClass">NEW YORK</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="legendSpanClass">Aug. 20, 2026</span> /PRNewswire/ -- SharonAI Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/quote/SHAZ">SHAZ</a>) and its subsidiaries (&#34;Sharon AI&#34; or &#34;the Company&#34;), a leading Australian <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="spanHghlt7169">Neocloud</span>, today announced the successful delivery and customer acceptance of an initial AI Cloud deployment for a global technology company with a major Asia-Pacific presence.</p>
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<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Customer acceptance marks the completion of a key milestone under the five-year AI Cloud infrastructure agreement, which has a total initial contract value of approximately US$950m. Acceptance also triggers release of cash security currently held in escrow.</p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The deployment is the first phase of this customer contract, and part of a series of additional NVIDIA GPU clusters that Sharon AI expects to deliver over the coming months. Under the agreement, Sharon AI is deploying AI Cloud solutions across multiple data centers in Australia, with revenue expected to commence in stages across the third and fourth quarters of 2026.</p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">&#34;Delivering AI infrastructure at scale requires coordinated execution across data center readiness, compute, storage, networking and customer integration,&#34; said James Manning, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sharon AI. &#34;This successful deployment demonstrates our ability to bring together a global partner ecosystem and coordinate specialist teams to meet customer delivery requirements. The capabilities and operating discipline developed through this project strengthen our delivery platform as we deploy future clusters, bringing our secured and contracted capacity online, and supporting durable long-term growth.&#34;</p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Sharon AI has secured 212MW of AI Factory capacity, of which 120MW is contracted under multi-year take-or-pay agreements. The accepted deployment represents further progress in bringing this secured and contracted capacity online. The Company continues to advance its AI Factory platform to address strong demand for high-performance, sovereign AI infrastructure across Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region.</p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><b xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">About Sharon AI</b></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Sharon AI (NASDAQ:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/quote/SHAZ">SHAZ</a>) is a leading Australian <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="spanHghlt7bc9">neocloud</span> expanding access to artificial intelligence through trusted, secure and sovereign AI infrastructure. Through its AI Factory platform and colocation partners, Sharon AI enables organisations across Australia, New Zealand, and globally to confidently build, train and deploy AI at scale. For more information, visit <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" href="http://www.sharonai.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.sharonai.com</a>.</p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><b xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Contacts</b></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Media<br xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"></br><a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" href="mailto:media@sharonai.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">media@sharonai.com</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Investors<br xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"></br><a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" href="mailto:investors@sharonai.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">investors@sharonai.com</a></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><b xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Disclosure Information</b></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Sharon AI primarily uses its Investor Relations page (<u xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" href="https://sharonai.com/investors/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="spanHghlte530">https://sharonai.com/investors/</span></a></u>) to disclose material non-public information and to comply with its disclosure obligations under Regulation FD. The Company also notes that, at times, it uses other communication mediums including, but not limited to, its X account (sharon__ai) and/or LinkedIn account (sharon-AI) to disseminate information about the Company, and can be additional sources of information outside press releases, regulatory filings with the SEC and any other conference calls, webcasts, investor days, etc. that the company may hold.</p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><b xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Forward-Looking Statements</b></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">This press release may contain, and our officers and representatives may from time to time make, &#34;forward-looking statements&#34; within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which are not historical facts, and which are not assurances of future performance. Forward-looking statements are based only on our current beliefs, expectations and assumptions regarding the future of our business, future plans and strategies, projections, anticipated events and trends, the economy and other future conditions. In some cases you can identify these statements by forward-looking words such as &#34;believe,&#34; &#34;may,&#34; &#34;will,&#34; &#34;estimate,&#34; &#34;continue,&#34; &#34;anticipate,&#34; &#34;intend,&#34; &#34;could,&#34; &#34;should,&#34; &#34;would,&#34; &#34;project,&#34; &#34;strategy,&#34; &#34;plan,&#34; &#34;expect,&#34; &#34;goal,&#34; &#34;seek,&#34; &#34;future,&#34; &#34;likely&#34; or the negative or plural of these words or similar expressions or references to future periods. Forward-looking statements in this release include specific statements regarding the intended use of proceeds. Examples of such forward-looking statements include but are not limited to express or implied statements regarding Sharon AI&#39;s management team&#39;s expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future including, without limitation, statements regarding:</p><ul xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" type="disc"><li xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Service and product offerings;</li><li xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Receipt and use of proceeds;</li><li xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The deployment of assets and expansion of network procurement;</li><li xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Sharon AI&#39;s ability to engage with additional potential customers;</li><li xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Expansion of Sharon AI&#39;s data center footprint and capacity; and</li><li xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The strengthening of Sharon AI&#39;s partner network.</li></ul><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">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 &#34;Risk Factors&#34; section of the Company&#39;s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC and other reports subsequently 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 <u xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" href="https://www.sec.gov/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="spanHghltfbcc">www.sec.gov</span></a></u>. </p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">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.</p>



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Sharon AI Holdings (SHAZ) reports the successful delivery and acceptance of the initial AI Cloud deployment under a five-year, US$950 million contract with a major APAC technology firm. The milestone unlocks escrow cash and begins staged revenue in Q3-Q4 2026 as 212MW of AI Factory capacity is brought online, with 120MW under take‑pay. This enhances near-term visibility and supports further APAC deployments.

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