September 24, 2026 Australia
Victoria has proposed new rules requiring data centers to secure their own renewable energy and storage capacity. Under the state’s Sustainable Data Centre Action Plan, operators would also need to match new demand with new generation and cover grid connection and network upgrade costs. The...
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August 27, 2026 Australia
Gateway Capital has filed plans for an 81MW data center in Sydney, Australia. The Frederick Street Data Centre would be built on a 1.8-hectare site at 12 Frederick Street in St Leonards. The five-story facility would span 16,635 sqm (179,058 sq ft) and include an on-site substation. The project...
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August 24, 2026 Australia
A large data center campus is planned for Queensland, Australia, with Zerra DC proposing the Western Downs Digital Park, a digital, energy, and computing hub in regional Queensland. The project, filed with the Western Downs Regional Council, could include up to four phases of AI-ready data...
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August 19, 2026 Australia
Australian data center firm DXN has secured a AU$4.1 million (US$2.9m) contract to supply a prefabricated Edge data center to Melbourne Airport. The facility will support critical ICT infrastructure as part of the airport’s development plan. DXN is expected to deliver the data center by the end...
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August 13, 2026 Australia
Australian real estate firm Centuria Industrial REIT (CIP) is targeting more than 250MW of data center capacity across Australia. The company currently owns three data center sites, with two offering expansion potential. It has also submitted power applications for three industrial properties...
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August 11, 2026 Australia
Australian data center firm CDC has expressed interest in developing a potential data center in New Zealand in partnership with Contact Energy. The proposed site is in Stratford, Taranaki, on land near Contact Energy’s former Taranaki Combined Cycle power station. CDC said the site already has...
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July 27, 2026 New Zealand
New Zealand’s Green Party has called for a one-year moratorium on new AI data centre developments. The opposition party, which holds 15 seats in Parliament, said the pause would allow time to develop regulations and ensure data centres benefit New Zealanders without placing pressure on natural...
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July 16, 2026 Australia
Macquarie Technology Group subsidiary Macquarie Data Centres has exercised its option to acquire a 34,200 sqm (368,125 sq ft) site in Sydney's Macquarie Park for a planned 200MW data center campus. The AU$240 million (US$167.95 million) acquisition is expected to close in the coming weeks...
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July 13, 2026 Australia
A data center near Perth, leased to Australian telecommunications company Vocus, has been sold. CBRE recently announced the off-market sale of 5 Watts Place, a mixed-use data center and office facility located within Bentley Technology Park, for AU$13.13 million (US$9.1 million). The property was...
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May 12, 2026 Australia
Australian investment company Alceon is backing local data center developer Insite DC through its newly launched Data Centre Catalyst Fund. The firm said it plans to invest at least AU$100 million (US$72m) in initial capital to support site acquisitions and data center developments across...
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May 08, 2026 Australia
Data center developer Zerra DC has acquired a former automotive manufacturing site in Melbourne, Australia, for a potential new campus. According to The Urban Developer and Green Street News, the company purchased the former Ford car assembly plant site for redevelopment into a data center...
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April 03, 2026 Australia
Plans have been submitted to the New South Wales government for a new 70MW data center at 23-25 Waterloo Road. The project involves the demolition of a legacy facility in Macquarie Park to make way for this expanded infrastructure. Digital Realty is the driving force behind a new AU$700 million...
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April 01, 2026 Australia
AI firm Anthropic may invest in Australian AI infrastructure under a broader agreement with the government. The company, developer of the Claude AI model, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on AI safety research and support Australia’s National AI Plan.Anthropic may invest in...
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March 09, 2026 Australia
Australian biological computing startup Cortical Labs has unveiled a biological data center prototype in Melbourne. The facility is designed to process information using what the company calls “wetware” — lab-grown neurons cultivated on traditional silicon chips.Built around neurological...
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March 03, 2026 Australia
CDC, one of Australia’s largest data center companies, has opened a campus in Brooklyn, Melbourne. The two-facility campus was inaugurated last Thursday with government officials in attendance, including Australia’s assistant treasurer, Daniel Mulino.CDC has not disclosed details about the...
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November 14, 2025 Sydney
Starwood Capital Group, Doma Infrastructure Group, and Telstra InfraCo this week announced the formation of a strategic agreement to develop a carrier-neutral data center in Minchinbury, Western Sydney.Starwood Capital and Doma are responsible for financing, development, construction, and ongoing...
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November 12, 2025 Australia
Australian neocloud Firmus has raised AU$500m (US$327m) in equity for its data center rollout as it aims to expand its data center capacity to 1.6GW through 2028 under an initiative known as Project Southgate, for which the new funding will go towards.Firmus' co-CEO Oliver Curtis said: "This...
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October 31, 2025 Australia
Australian real estate firm Centuria Industrial REIT is planning to develop a new data center in Melbourne, Victoria. The company said it was “seizing the opportunity” to develop a second data center adjacent to the existing Telstra-occupied data center in Clayton.“Telstra has agreed to partially...
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October 16, 2025 Australia
Australian AI cloud firm Firmus is planning expansion across Australia in partnering with local operator CDC Data Centres. The company said the partnership could extend its capacity to 1.6GW under an initiative known as Project Southgate. As well as the existing project in Tasmania, deployments...
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October 03, 2025 Australia
An agency has been established to streamline data center investments in New South Wales, Australia. The Investment Delivery Authority (IDA), which began accepting Expressions of Interest (EoI) on September 30, promises to support major investment projects in the southeastern Australian state by...
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