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NextDC Unveils 612MW S7 Data Centre, OpenAI Stargate Set to Be Customer

NextDC's proposed S7 data centre in Eastern Creek, Sydney, will provide up to 612MW of capacity, according to planning documents. The Australian developer submitted plans for the project in mid-March, several months after acquiring the 255,135 sqm site for AU$353 million (US$244m) in October 2024...

July 02, 2026

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NextDC Secures 169-hectare Land Parcel Outside Melbourne

Australian data center firm NextDC has acquired a large land parcel outside Melbourne, Victoria. Local media, including The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, report that the company has purchased 169 hectares in Lovely Banks, Victoria, near Geelong and around 70km west of Melbourne. The site ...

June 25, 2026

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Second Building at Edged’s Chicago Data Center Campus Topped Out

Edged Energy has topped out its latest facility at its Chicago, Illinois campus. The company said it has completed structural work on its second building at the site at 2835 Bilter Road in Aurora. The ORD01-2 data center is fully pre-leased, will deliver 72MW of capacity, and is scheduled to go l...

June 05, 2026

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Armada Raises $230M ln Latest Funding Round

Armada has raised $230 million in an oversubscribed Series B round, its largest funding to date, bringing total capital to nearly $500 million. The round was co-led by Overmatch, BlackRock, and 8090 Industries, with participation from investors including Johnson Controls, NightDragon, Mitsui, ...

May 20, 2026

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NextDC Launches Data Center Near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Australian data center operator NextDC has launched KL1, its first international data center, near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The facility is located in Seksyen 51a in Petaling Jaya, west of Kuala Lumpur.The facility is expected to deliver 65MW of capacity once fully completed, though NextDC has ...

May 15, 2026

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NextDC Begins Construction on 4.4MW Edge Facility in Geelong

Australian data center firm NextDC has broken ground on a new Edge facility near Melbourne. “It's begun! Work on NextDC's GE1 4.4MW data center in Geelong has commenceIn thid, bringing new capability to the region,” Adam Gardner, head of Edge at NextDC, said on Linkedin this week.The 4.4MW fac...

April 22, 2026

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Armada Secures 11MW Data Center Deployment with WinDC in Australia

Australian data center company WinDC is partnering with US edge data center firm Armada to deploy containerized compute across the country. This week, the two companies announced a partnership to roll out a network of portable, renewable-powered “AI factories” across Australia.WinDC aims to pl...

March 16, 2026

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Sharon AI Signs 50MW Data Center Lease with NextDC

Australian neocloud Sharon AI has signed a 50MW capacity expansion agreement with NextDC. The company is reportedly undergoing a private funding round with the hope it will "warm up" the market for a future public listing.“AI infrastructure is the foundation of the intelligence economy,” said ...

November 03, 2025

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NextDC Expands Debt Facility by AU$1.3 billion

Australian data center firm NextDC this week announced that, following the successful completion of general syndication, it has secured new senior debt facilities totaling AU$3.5 billion (US$2.28bn).NextDC CEO and MD, Craig Scroggie, said: "In light of recent record contract wins that are acce...

August 15, 2025

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NextDC Announces Plans for Data Center in Melbourne

Australian data center firm NextDC this week announced a AU$2 billion (US$1.29bn) commitment to develop M4 Melbourne — a new campus at 127 Todd Road in Port Melbourne. The company said the site will host an AI Factory: a liquid-cooled facility engineered for sovereign AI. NextDC said the facto...

June 14, 2025

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Edged Data Centers launches new facility in Atlanta

Data center provider Edged Energy has launched its first North American data center in Atlanta, Georgia. The campus will feature three data centers, the first of the three which is now live, delivering 27MW of capacity. At full build-out, the campus will offer 168MW of IT capacity. Brandon Be...

August 25, 2024

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NextDC launches new facility in Darwin

Australian data center firm NextDC this week officially opened D1 data center in Darwin, developed in partnership with the Northern Territory Government and Vocus. NextDC CEO Craig Scroggie said: “D1 will play a pivotal role in accelerated computing and represents the next step towards achiev...

August 16, 2024

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NextDC receives Nvidia DGX-Ready data center certification

Australian data center operator NextDC has received Nvidia DGX-Ready certification which enables the operator to support Australian organizations with digital infrastructure architectures designed for Nvidia's artificial intelligence (AI) platforms. NextDC's chief customer and commercial offi...

August 07, 2024

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Open Fiber to move to Edge data centers

Italian fiber firm Open Fiber (formerly Enel Open Fiber) is planning to move into Edge data centers. Andrea Lazzaroli, operational marketing business market manager at Open Fiber, said the company will be deploying Edge data centers along its network.“With the introduction of Edge data center...

April 18, 2024

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NextDC seeks funding for expansion plans

Australian data center operator NextDC is seeking to raise AU$1.3 billion to fund its expansion plans. The company plans to raise the cash from existing investors via a share issue, which will allow its backers to purchase one new share in the company for every six they already own. NextDC say...

April 11, 2024

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Edge Centres purchases QuadraNet

Edge data center firm Edge Centres has acquired US colocation and bare metal provider QuadraNet, sucessfully adding 10 facilities to its US footprint. QuadraNet says it has more than 1,000 active customers and facilities located in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, New Jersey, Rest...

April 08, 2024

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Polaris Technology to build new data center in Muskogee, Oklahoma

Crypto data center provider Polaris Technology announced that it is planning to spend $100 million building a 200MW facility in the US state of Oklahoma. The company will be constructing the Bitcoin mining facility on a 42-acre site at the John T. Griffin Industrial Park, Port Muskogee, south ...

February 17, 2024

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NextDC commences construction on Darwin data center

Two years after sharing initial plans, NextDC has finally begun construction at its D1 8MW data center in Australia's Northern Territory in Darwin. The site located close to the Charles Darwin University CBD campus is being constructed by Kapitol Group NT and is expected to create around 200...

November 23, 2023

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Fujitsu closes US data centers operations, might follow suit in South America

Fujitsu is revising its data center approach to the Americas and has shut down its data center operation in North America. Fujitsu's newly hired CEO for the Americas, Asif Poonja, stated in an interview with BNAmericas this week that the company is contemplating partnering with service provide...

September 13, 2023

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NextDC is developing a modular data center in the Pilbara region of Western Australia

Western Australia has received an Edge data center module from NextDC. According to the company's website, the 1.5MW, single-story PH1 provides technical space for 320 racks across 7,825 square feet. The company has projected a go-live date of August 2023.The company stated that the data cente...

August 09, 2023

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