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The Guam government will construct a Tier IV data center on the island

To enhance Internet quality, the government of Guam intends to construct a solar-powered Tier IV data center on the island. In addition, it intends to construct a new government data center on the University campus. This week, the Office of the Governor revealed the Guam Five-Year Action Plan ...

September 01, 2023

Guam

Guam University to receive new government data center

A new government data center is proposed for the campus of the University of Guam. The government intends to construct a two-story, 15,000-square-foot data center/Office of Information Technology facility. The endeavor will see an investment of $15 million.The report notes that the 1992-built ...

September 01, 2023

Guam

Solar-powered data center to heat surfing lagoon in New Zealand

In New Zealand, Aventuur, a leisure park developer, has shared plans to heat a surfing lagoon using a solar-powered data center. The company is already in the process of building a surf park in Perth, Australia, which, it has outlined, is set to open in 2025. In Auckland, meanwhile, it's plann...

August 31, 2023

New Zealand

GTA receives clearance for new Guam cable landing station

Guam-based telecommunications company GTA TeleGuam has been permitted to construct a new cable landing station (CLS). In May, GTA submitted plans to construct a new CLS in Inalhan, southeast of the island. The Guam Daily Post reported last week that the Guam Hybrid Land Use Commission granted ...

August 31, 2023

Guam

AirTrunk begins the 70MW expansion of the SYD2 facility in Sydney, Australia

AirTrunk, an APAC data center developer, has begun constructing a 70MW expansion to one of its Sydney, Australia campuses. The organization announced this week that construction has begun on the final two stages of its SYD2 facility. The two-phase development is anticipated to be completed in...

June 16, 2023

AirTrunk Sydney SYD2

Data Centre 220 and Xtreme Networks partner for greater data sovereignty in New Zealand

Data Centre 220 has partnered with Xtreme Networks for greater data sovereignty in New Zealand. According to the two, the partnership will provide their customers with two geographically diverse locations within New Zealand while providing secure and reliable data storage and management offeri...

May 10, 2023

New Zealand

Macquarie Data Centres and Console Connect partner for new Point of Presence in Sydney

Macquarie Data Centers has announced that it has partnered with Console Connect to add a new Point of Presence in Sydney. Through the partnership, Console Connect’s Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform will be available at the Macquarie Data Centres campus in Macquarie Park, Sydney. The two ha...

May 03, 2023

Sydney

Glenside Data Centre in Adelaide, Australia, Catches Fire

A fire has started at the Glenside Data Centre in Adelaide, Australia. Among other government services, the event led to the failure of South Australia's state hospitals' electronic medical records system. The primary data center for the state government is located in Glenside. The electrical ...

April 19, 2023

Adelaide

Varonis opens Australia data center in line with national data sovereignty rules

Varonis has announced that it has opened its first data center in Australia to support Varonis' customers and to better demonstrate compliance with national data sovereignty rules, a regulatory trend which is on the rise.Varonis outlined that in light of a wave of ransomware attacks on Austral...

April 12, 2023

Australia

Spark New Zealand announces new data center strategy

Spark New Zealand has outlined it will inject between $156 million to $189m into data center expansion, as part of a new three-year strategy. As part of this strategy, it will also work on new technologies, in order to open up new commercialisation opportunities across its core markets of mobi...

April 07, 2023

New Zealand

A $188 Million Data Center is Being Built at Auckland Air Force Base by The New Zealand Government

The New Zealand government has been constructing a $188 million data center in secrecy at its Auckland air force station. Defense and GCSB Minister Andrew Little made the announcement of the project, noting that the location originally received the money in 2019. 150 construction workers have ...

April 06, 2023

New Zealand

Vocus’ Melbourne Data Center Experiences Downtime Due to a UPS Issue

An outage was brought on by a UPS issue at a Melbourne, Australia-based Vocus data center. Recently, Vocus reported a "major incident" at its VDC-MEL03 data center, located at 530 Collins Street in Melbourne, Victoria, on its status page. On-site power had been out between 09:02 and 09:27 A...

March 14, 2023

Vocus Melbourne (55 King) [Site Closed]

Lacework announces availability of Sydney based data center

Lacework has announced the availability of its new cloud data center in Sydney, New South Wales, which is pegged to provide organizations with lower latencies in Australia and New Zealand, with better support. Richard Davies, Area Director at Lacework, said that as the Australia and New Zealan...

March 01, 2023

Sydney

Telstra Exchange Facility and Property for Sale Near Melbourne, Australia.

Under a sale-leaseback agreement, Telstra is offering a minor exchange facility in the environs of Melbourne for sale. The east Melbourne neighborhood of Rowville's 12 Lambourne Avenue is being put up for sale by the Australian telecom. A brick structure of 1,430 square feet on one story, sitt...

February 16, 2023

Melbourne

Datacom goes 100% renewable in New Zealand

Datacom has announced that all its facilities in New Zealand are now powered by renewable energy. This is part of a ten-year contract with Mercury Energy, through which its data centers will run on geothermal, wind, and hydro energy sources from the company.As per the deal, the company has sig...

February 13, 2023

New Zealand

DataGrid Files To Develop a 100MW Data Center in New Zealand

According to Stuff.co.nz, DataGrid has filed an application to develop its first data center in southern New Zealand. The company filed the application with Southland District Council for a new facility in Makarewa, outside Invercargill. Plans for the data center in December 2020. The CEO o...

December 09, 2022

New Zealand

Australia's Spirit Technology Solutions Announces Decision to Sell Network and Data Center Assets to Maret Group

Spirit Technology Solutions has announced that it will sell its network and data center assets to Maret. The Australian communication provider revealed that it would transfer the assets to Maret but didn’t specify the data center assets it would be transferring. Sprint Technology would receive...

December 02, 2022

Australia

DigitalOcean announces new facility in Sydney

DigitalOcean has announced that it is expanding its digital footprint with a new data center in Sydney, Australia, namely SYD1. This new facility is reportedly connected to DigitalOcean's private internet edge and backbone network, providing 400 Gbps of on-net access to Asia, North America, an...

November 16, 2022

Sydney

NextDC Launches M3 Data Center in Melbourne

NextDC has opened another data center in Melbourne, Australia. The facility sees the company more than double its existing capacity in Melbourne. M3 is located in West Footscray and spans 1 million square feet (100,000 square meters). It also offers 150MW of capacity. The facility offers 441,3...

October 30, 2022

NEXTDC West Footscray M3

Further details emerge about GreenSquareDC's plans for Perth data center

Further information has emerged about GreenSquare's data center plans. The company, which describes itself as an ‘emerging sustainability-oriented data center provider,’ has obtained planning permission for a new 96MW data center in Perth, Australia, after its application was approved by Metr...

October 24, 2022

Perth

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