Brisbane Data Center News

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

NEXTDC

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Edge Centres

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

NEXTDC

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

NEXTDC

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Edge Centres

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

NEXTDC

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Edge Centres

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Polaris Data Centre

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

NEXTDC

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Fujitsu

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

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

NEXTDC

Multacom, a LA data center company, bought by Edge Centres

US data center company Multacom has been acquired by Australian Edge operator Edge Centres. This week, the companies announced the acquisition. The terms were not revealed. Edge Centres will acquire a Los Angeles-based data center operator, adding 25,000 square feet and 1-megawatt capacity acr...

July 25, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Edge Centres

Virginia's Reston data center is now owned by Edge Centres

Edge Centres has acquired a data center facility in Reston, Virginia. According to the company, the newly-acquired carrier hotel establishment, renamed EC104, features 1MW of scalability and 20 individual carriers. The data center is at 11513 Sunset Hills Road in Fairfax County, although the c...

June 21, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Edge Centres

NextDC announces completion of S3 data center in Sydney, Australia

NextDC has announced that it has completed construction at its S3 data center in Sydney, Australia, following AU$1 billion (US$685m) of investment, two months ahead of schedule. Construction first began at the facility in March 2021, with the first phase completed last year, in August. The se...

June 20, 2023

NEXTDC

Orion Data Centers Purchased by Edge Centre's Cybercon

Cybercon, which Australian data center operator Edge Centres currently owns, has acquired Missouri data center company, Orion Data Centers. Last week, the business disclosed that it had successfully acquired Orion, expanding its regional coverage to include a facility in Columbia. The agreemen...

June 02, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Edge Centres

Host Networks Acquired by Edge Centres

Edge Centres, an Australian data center company, bought Queensland-based Host Networks. The terms of the agreement announced this week were not disclosed. As part of the agreement, Edge Centres will take over a 550kW, 130-rack facility in Brisbane's Eight Mile Plains area that can be expanded...

May 18, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Edge Centres

NextDC is Looking For $413.3m For Global Expansion

NextDC, an Australian data center company, will open projects in Kuala Lumpur and Auckland. They secretly added New Zealand, Malaysia, and Japan data center proposals to its site last month. None of the locations had timelines or specifications. The company disclosed foreign expansion in an AS...

May 12, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

NEXTDC

NextDC Reveals New Zealand, Malaysia, and Japan Data Center Initiatives

Plans for new data center projects in New Zealand, Malaysia, and Japan have been subtly added to NextDC's website. The prospective plans to expand in New Zealand were initially reported by Reseller News a few weeks ago. They stated that the company had purchased several blocks of land in centr...

May 08, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

NEXTDC

Edge Centres Completes The Acquisition of Hyson International

Hyson, a US hosting company, has been bought by Edge Centres. Hyson International, located in Missouri, has been acquired by Edge, a company based in Australia, according to a report last week by M&A advisory firm Corum Group. The agreement's details weren't made public. As a supplier o...

April 04, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Edge Centres

Edge Centers launches in St. Louis, Missouri

Edge Centres has announced the launch of a new facility in St. Louis, Missouri, its first in the region. Traditionally, its off-grid facilities are powered by on-site wind and/or solar power, with each having 48-hour batteries, and UPS backup equipment supporting 64 1kW quarter racks. However...

March 22, 2023

Edge Centres

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