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HMC Capital launches DigiCo REIT

Australia’s HMC Capital has launched its new digital infrastructure investment vehicle, having raised AU$153 million ($100m) more than anticipated in its initial public offering (IPO), and says it is in talks to buy three additional hyperscale data centers in the US.David Di Pilla, HMC Capital...

November 26, 2024

Australia

HMC to pay for iseek ahead of data center portfolio listing

MC is set to pay AU$400 million ($264m) for Australian data center operator iseek as it prepares to publicly list its digital infrastructure portfolio in a move that could raise $AU4 billion ($2.64bn). The asset manager will form a new company, DigiCo Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), which...

November 11, 2024

Australia

Global Switch to sell Australia data center business

Global Switch has agreed to sell its Australian assets to investment manager HMC Capital for AU$2.12 billion (US$1.41bn). This deal for Global Switch Australia Holdings (GSAH) will provide Global Switch with capital to grow other parts of its business, the company said on Thursday morning. The...

October 26, 2024

Australia

DataBank completes $2 billion equity

DataBank has completed a $2 billion equity raise led by Australian superannuation fund, AustralianSuper. AustralianSuper has committed $1.5bn in equity which will see it become a significant minority owner of DataBank and join the company's board of directors."We are delighted to have Australi...

October 15, 2024

Australia

Engineering Firm Woolpert acquires Greenbox Architecture

Engineering and architecture consulting firm Woolpert has acquired Greenbox Architecture. The Sydney-based architectural firm has specialized in data center, commercial, and residential architecture in the APAC region since 2009.“By joining a tech-driven company like Woolpert, we will be able ...

October 10, 2024

Sydney

Large scale data center planned in New Zealand

A large-scale data center powered by hydrogen is reportedly being planned in New Zealand by Mobii Green and North Rakaia. Mobii Green Energy founder Kenny Tseng said the first phase of the project will see sovereign funds and international private equity funds invest US$2 billion to develop 8...

October 09, 2024

New Zealand

HBF completes mainframe to cloud migration

Australian insurance provider HBF has completed its "digital transformation" project which began in 2019. This project involved migrating its workloads and core systems from a mainframe to the cloud. The company has reportedly also established a new core insurance platform for policy, product...

September 19, 2024

Australia

Adisyn exits Perth data center

Australian MSP Adisyn previously known as DC Two, announced it has negotiated a surrender of its Bibra Lake data center lease. The company will exit the lease on 18 October - decommissioning and selling plant and equipment at the site - and said the move would result in approximately AU$350,00...

September 10, 2024

Australia

ACCC approves Optus-TPG network sharing agreement

Australian regulator ACCC has approved the proposed regional network-sharing agreement struck by Optus and TPG Telecom, enabling the telcos to create a regional Multi-Operator Core Network (MOCN), which will last for 11 years. ACCC said it would not oppose the plans in a statement yesterday. ...

September 07, 2024

Australia

Blackstone acquires AirTrunk for AU$24bn

Blackstone has acquired APAC data center firm AirTrunk from Macquarie Asset Management and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board. for US$16.1 billion, making it the largest-ever deal in the space. This deal was secured with funds from Blackstone along with the Canada Pension Plan Investm...

September 06, 2024

Australia

RBA selects NTT for new IT infrastructure

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has selected NTT Australia for the 'design and implementation' of its new IT infrastructure. This contract worth AU$12.7 million is part of RBA's CoreMod program, an effort that was revealed at the end of 2023. While this "design and implementation phase" ...

September 04, 2024

Australia

Centuria to acquire 50% stake in ResetData

Australasian real estate fund manager Centuria Capital Group has announced that it has gotten into an agreement to acquire a 50 percent stake in cloud data center provider ResetData for up to $21 million as it plans to expand the group’s revenue stream into a new business line that aims to pro...

August 06, 2024

Australia

Atturra expands sovereign cloud in NextDC Sydney data center

Australian advisory and IT solutions provider Atturra is expanding its sovereign cloud capacity with a new deployment in NextDC's S3 data center in Sydney, helping the company to meet growing demand from clients for cloud computing and storage capacity. The solutions provider will commence it...

August 05, 2024

Sydney

Team IM to launch sovereign cloud for New Zealand

Kiwi information management services provider Team IM has deployed Oracle Alloy in its data centers and is set to launch a sovereign cloud for New Zealand which it claims will be New Zealand's first sovereign hyperscale cloud. Ian Rogers, CEO of Team IM. said: “Many companies have promised to...

July 28, 2024

New Zealand

Datagrid buys another six hectares for data center expansion in New Zealand

New Zealand data center firm Datagrid has purchased another six hectares of land for expansion on its campus on New Zealand’s South Island. The New Zealand Overseas Investment Office has approved the land acquisition and will allow the project to reach a total area of 49 hectares.Perrine Dhall...

July 23, 2024

New Zealand

Tape Ark to migrate West Australian Ballet archives to the cloud

Tape Ark which specializes in mass migration of data stored on tape to the cloud has been awarded a three-year deal to be the Ballet's 'Historical Digital Preservation Partner.' In preparation for the West Australian Ballet's 75th anniversary which will fall in 2027, Tape Ark is set to migrate...

July 12, 2024

Australia

ESR to sell land acquired for data center in Sydney, Australia

Industrial real estate firm ESR is looking to sell 1.5 hectares at 44-50 Waterloo Rd, which it acquired in 2021 from an AMP Capital fund for AU$71m, and had been earmarked for a data center development. The parcel is currently home to two office and industrial buildings partly occupied by Mac...

July 08, 2024

Australia

Spark to build a data center on Auckland's North Shore

New Zealand telco Spark will be teaming up with global surf park creator Aventuur to build a data center on Auckland's North Shore that will heat a nearby surfing lagoon. The data center will use a heat exchange system to send excess heat to a nearby surfing lagoon and will be partially powere...

June 29, 2024

New Zealand

Australia's CSIRO launches Virga supercomputer

Australia's national science agency CSIRO has launched its Virga high-performance computing (HPC) cluster which comprises of Dell PowerEdge XE9640 servers containing Intel Xeon processors, Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU accelerators with 94GB of high-bandwidth memory per GPU, and a Nvidia Transf...

June 27, 2024

Australia

CSIRO partners with Alphabet moonshot unit for new inverter prototype

Australia's national science agency CSIRO is partnering with one of Alphabet’s skunkworks projects to develop a new type of smart inverter project to better handle renewable energy on the grid through greater real-time visibility and more simulation capabilities.The prototype smart inverter wa...

June 26, 2024

Australia

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