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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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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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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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Stack Secures Green Financing for Data Center in Tokyo

Stack Infrastructure has secured a 39.7 billion yen ($247.7m) green financing package to develop its data center campus in Japan's capital, Tokyo. The first stage of the 36MW TKY01 campus in Inzai, Greater Tokyo, is set to come online next year, offering 18MW, with the additional capacity set ...

October 27, 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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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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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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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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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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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

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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

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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

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Airtrunk data center development at Tokyo data center

AirTrunk has announced that it has broken ground on the second phase of its TOK2 data center located in Tokyo, Japan. This follows the groundbreaking of the first phase only three months ago. The company has outlined that the new phase is scalable to approximately 50MW of capacity and custom-...

February 22, 2023

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Alibaba Opens New Data Center in Tokyo

Alibaba has established a data center in Tokyo, Japan. The company stated in December 2022 that its Alibaba Cloud/Aliyun division had opened a third data center in Japan to "meet the transformation expectations" of clients. Unique Song, General Manager of Japan for Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, ...

December 23, 2022

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NextDC Looking To Buy Global Switch's APAC Portfolio

According to reports, NextDC is looking to acquire Global Switch’s Asia-Pacific arm. The Australian data center firm has contacted Macquarie Capital to find a financial partner for the purchase. Global Switch has been looking to sell its business for more than a year. Besides, it was in dis...

June 02, 2022

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Hulic's Plan For a Data Center in Tokyo Revealed

Japanese real estate company Hulic has plans to develop a data center in Tokyo, Japan. According to the Japanese press and Japan Property Central, the firm will be building the data center on the site of an existing office it owns. The office is located in Nihonbashi, Tokyo. Hulic will demolis...

May 23, 2022

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NextDC makes progress on S3 data center

Progress has been made on NEXTDC's S3 data center, it has been announced. Multiplex, the company working on the development, has outlined that it has begun 'topping out' the structure in the Artarmon on Sydney's lower North Shore. The facility spans 26,770 square meters of data halls and ancil...

May 12, 2022

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Gaw Capital Partners Acquires Building For Data Center in Tokyo, Japan

Gaw Capital Partners has announced the acquisition of a building in Tokyo, Japan. The real estate private equity firm also plans to transform the building into a data center. The Fuchu Building it acquired is next to Meito Sangyo Building in Fuchu Intelligent Park. Gaw will demolish the 59,...

April 08, 2022

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