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Australia's Macquarie Data Centres this week announced that it will be acquiring its existing Macquarie Park data center campus from Singapore's Keppel DC REIT. The companies have entered into a binding agreement which will see Macquarie acquire the existing Intellicentre 2 and Intellicentre 3...

Western Sydney International Airport (WSI) has selected CDC Data Centres for its digital tower deployment. WSI will be one of the first in Australia to run a digital air traffic control tower and has partnered with CDC, Frequentis Australasia, and Airservices to develop the system. WSI will de...

Western Sydney International Airport (WSI) has selected CDC Data Centres for its digital tower deployment. WSI will be one of the first in Australia to run a digital air traffic control tower and has partnered with CDC, Frequentis Australasia, and Airservices to develop the system. WSI will de...

Quantum computing startup Diraq has raised $15 million in a Series 2-A funding round led by specialist investor Quantonation, a venture capital fund dedicated to quantum technologies, with participation from Higgins Family Investments and the University of New South Wales, Sydney. This latest ...

Macquarie has made an investment in a Belgian data center developer. Allen & Overy announced this week that it advised Macquarie Capital on its investment in KevlinX Holding B.V. Allen & Overy reported that KevlinX HoldCo is creating a data center in Brussels via its indirect subsidiar...

Macquarie Data Centres has shared its expansion plans for an upcoming data center in Sydney, Australia. First announced in July 2021, the IC3 Super West will have its planned capacity increased to cater to high-density workloads, with a potential to increase its IT load to 45MW - this is a 41 ...

Macquarie Data Centers has announced that it has partnered with Console Connect to add a new Point of Presence in Sydney. Through the partnership, Console Connect’s Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform will be available at the Macquarie Data Centres campus in Macquarie Park, Sydney. The two ha...

The Australian investment firm Macquarie Capital made a non-binding bid that Chilean telecoms company GTD accepted to purchase 49% of a new subsidiary that includes all data centers in Chile, Peru, and Colombia. Moreover, property designated for future data centers is included in the sale. No ...

The regional energy supplier for Western Australia, Horizon Power, has migrated its IT workloads to Macquarie's cloud. The power company contracted with Macquarie Telecom and Macquarie Cloud Services to switch to a private cloud environment and lessen its reliance on data centers. The company ...

Lacework has announced the availability of its new cloud data center in Sydney, New South Wales, which is pegged to provide organizations with lower latencies in Australia and New Zealand, with better support. Richard Davies, Area Director at Lacework, said that as the Australia and New Zealan...

DigitalOcean has announced that it is expanding its digital footprint with a new data center in Sydney, Australia, namely SYD1. This new facility is reportedly connected to DigitalOcean's private internet edge and backbone network, providing 400 Gbps of on-net access to Asia, North America, an...

Macquarie Data Centres has announced it has signed a multi-year deal with ResetData, which will see Submer cooling technology used in Australia for the first time. This technology reportedly reduces CO2 emissions by up to 45% and also creates zero wastewater. Alongside this raft of benefits i...

Macquarie Data Centres has announced plans for a new data center in Sydney, Australia. Based at the Macquarie Park campus, the facility, 3 Super West, if it goes ahead, will have a capacity of 32MW. The company expects the data center to be completed by 2023 The construct...

Stockland has announced plans to build a five-story new data center in Sydney, which, according to the Australian Financial Review, might be for Amazon Web Services (AWS). The facility, worth AU$264 million (US$204.3 million), was reportedly fast-tracked by the New South Wales Government due t...