AirTrunk: Melbourne MEL2

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Victoria

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Australia

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Oceania

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Asia-Pacific (APAC)

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AirTrunk: Melbourne MEL2

Campus: AirTrunk: Melbourne MEL2 Campus

Short Code: Building 1

Year Planned: 2027

Leading APAC data center developer AirTrunk has finalized the acquisition of a new site in Melbourne for its second regional campus, MEL2. Representing a capital investment exceeding A$5 billion, the facility is designed to meet the escalating demands of global AI and cloud service providers.

MEL2 will work in tandem with AirTrunk’s existing Australian infrastructure, offering customers enhanced geographical redundancy and capacity across both the Sydney and Melbourne regions.

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Sites within 15 miles of AirTrunk: Melbourne MEL2

Distance	Site	About
0.15 miles	AirTrunk: MEL2 Expansion
0.42 miles	Vantage Melbourne MEL1	Vantage is building one multi-story data center on its MEL1 site in Tullamarine, Melbourne.
0.64 miles	NEXTDC: M2 Melbourne Tullamarine	M2 Melbourne is a Tier IV certified data centre situated in Tullamarine, conveniently located near major transport and telecommunications infrastructure.
1.61 miles	Center OneInterested in this information?Contact us
2.22 miles	Carrier-Neutral Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us
2.36 miles	Carrier-Neutral Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
5.69 miles	Zerra DC: Melbourne Campus	Zerra DC has filed a planning permit application with the state of Victoria to develop a six-building data center campus in Campbellfield, north of Melbourne, Australia.
6.71 miles	NEXTDC: M3West Footscray	In 2022, NextDC launched M3, the company's third data center in Melbourne, the capital city of Victoria, Australia. The facility is located in West Footscray, about 10km west of Melbourne's Central Business District.
6.94 miles	Digital Realty: MEL10
6.95 miles	Digital Realty: Melbourne 72 Radnor	The 3.00 hectare location has 2 buildings and is approximately 16km North West of Melbourne CBD and offers excellent diversity from a power and connectivity perspective.
6.97 miles	Digital Realty: MEL12
7.09 miles	Equinix ME4
7.67 miles	CDC: Brooklyn 1	CDC’s Brooklyn campus expansion in Melbourne, formally opened in early 2026 at an existing site that has operated since 2024, adds about 155MW and brings two operational facilities online, with a third planned and total campus capacity targeted at 350MW+
7.71 miles	Stockland: Brooklyn, Melbourne	Australian property group Stockland plans to develop a data center campus in Brooklyn, Melbourne.
7.75 miles	Centuria: Yarraville	Centuria Industrial REIT acquired the warehouse site at 1 Hardie Road and 2-8 Cawley Road, Yarraville, in late 2025 for A$30.2 million.
7.89 miles	Prime ParkInterested in this information?Contact us
7.97 miles	Campus UltraInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
8.12 miles	Datacom: AirTrunk MEL1	AirTrunk MEL1 is the largest data centre in Victoria (by MW capacity). Datacom's colocation suite at MEL1 is part of its trans-Tasman interconnected data centre network that spans Datacom's two Australian locations and four New Zealand data centres.
8.12 miles	Airtrunk: MEL1 Bldg-1	AirTrunk is expanding its Melbourne campus. This expansion will include the construction of the remaining three phases of the six phases in MEL1 campus that will deliver over 100MW of new IT load.
8.16 miles	Airtrunk: MEL1 Bldg-2
8.34 miles	Centuria: Thomastown Keon Park	Thomastown and Keon Park is CIP’s largest data centre conversion site, a 10.6 hectare industrial holding about 17 km north of Melbourne’s CBD and less than 100 metres from the Thomastown terminal station.
8.40 miles	Equinix Melbourne ME2
8.40 miles	GreenSquare: Melbourne Campus	Australian data center firm GreenSquare is expanding into Melbourne with plans for a new hyperscale campus, designated as MEL1, located on a former petrochemical storage site in Spotswood.
8.48 miles	Equinix Melbourne ME1
8.51 miles	Equinix ME5	The company acquired from Metronode in 2018.
8.74 miles	NEXTDC: M4 Melbourne	This Tier IV data center will encompass 50,000 square meters and include an AI Factory.
8.77 miles	NEXTDC: M1 Melbourne	NEXTDC's M1 facility is the best-connected data centre in Melbourne and is certified to UTI Tier III standard.
9.15 miles	Telstra: Exhibition	The Exhibition data center is located in Melbourne's CBD. It's one of two Telstra InfraCo data centers in Melbourne. The facility offers colocation services and is connected to its counterpart via fiber networks.
9.15 miles	Vocus: MEL03	VDC-MEL03 data center is located at 530 Collins Street in Melbourne. The company moved into the former ASX building in 2013 and said at the time it could build out to 400 racks.
9.15 miles	MDC 530 Collins
9.17 miles	ADC: Melbourne campus	Australian Data Centres (ADC) is planning an AI-optimised campus in Melbourne.
9.25 miles	Vocus Melbourne (55 King) [Site Closed]
9.51 miles	Interactive Melbourne
9.63 miles	Stockland: Melbourne Campus	Stockland has filed a planning permit application to develop a data center campus in Laverton, Melbourne.
9.85 miles	Goodman: Craigieburn
9.87 miles	STACK: MEL02B	MEL02B is the second phase of STACK Infrastructure's MEL02 data center on Palmers Road in Truganina, in Melbourne's west.
9.93 miles	STACK: MEL02A	MEL02A is the first phase of STACK Infrastructure's MEL02 data center on Palmers Road in Truganina, in Melbourne's west.
10.06 miles	STACK: MEL01A	In 2023, Stack Infrastructure announced the completion of its first Asia Pacific (APAC) data center, known as MEL01.
10.09 miles	STACK: MEL01B	MEL01B is the second data center building of Stack Infrastructure's Melbourne campus.
10.13 miles	STACK: MEL01C	This facility is part of Stack Infrastructure's MEL01 campus in Melbourne.
10.17 miles	STACK: MEL01D	This facility is part of Stack Infrastructure's MEL01 campus in Melbourne.
10.47 miles	Hyperscale Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us
10.49 miles	CDC: Laverton Campus	Construction has officially begun on CDC's $2.7 billion Laverton data campus in Melbourne, with groundbreaking taking place in February 2025.
10.84 miles	MetroInterested in this information?Contact us
11.11 miles	Goodman: RBR Hub
11.17 miles	Carrier-Neutral Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
11.35 miles	Carrier-Neutral Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
11.38 miles	PGIM: Melbourne Campus	PGIM Real Estate has expanded its digital infrastructure footprint with the acquisition of a 20.7-hectare site in a western suburb of Melbourne, marking the first Australian investment for its $2 billion Global Data Center Fund.
14.31 miles	PlazaInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
19.36 miles	Vocus: MEL04	Vocus acquired this facility from Enterprise Data Corporation (EDC) in February 2015.

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AirTrunk is an Australian hyperscale data centre specialist creating a platform for cloud, content and large enterprise customers across the Asia-Pacific region. The company develops and operates data centre campuses with industry-leading reliability, technology innovation and energy efficiency.

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