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Data center development at US Antarctic base in pushed back to 2023

The development of a data center at the US Antarctic base has been stalled with completion now scheduled to be in 2023. The data center is situated in the McMurdo Station research and logistics base in Ross Island, New Zealand. It is about 1,360 kilometers (850 miles) north of the South Pol...

November 23, 2021

New Zealand

Leading Edge DC opens new data center in Tamworth, Australia

Leading Edge DC, an Australian Edge data center firm, has announced the opening of a new facility in Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia. The company revealed the development in a LinkedIn post. It said: "We're Open for Business in Tamworth! A huge thank you to everyone who has been part of t...

November 05, 2021

Australia

Edge Centres expanding in Victoria, Australia

Edge Centres has announced that it has broken ground on a new edge facility center in Traralgon, Victoria. The new facility named EC8 will be Edge Centres’ second facility in Victoria after it opened EC3 in Bendigo, Victoria. Edge Centres plans to have four new facilities in operation by Novem...

October 13, 2021

EC3 Bendigo

Swoop acquires Countrytell in New South Wales, Australia

Australian telecommunication firm Swoop Holdings has acquired 100 percent of Countrytell Holdings for AU$4.2 million (US$3). Swoop paid half in cash and the other half in Swoop shares. Countrytell is a regional connectivity provider in Newcastle, New South Wales. Countrytell was founded in 200...

October 07, 2021

Australia

APAC REIT acquires Woolworths’ Sydney HQ and data center for $336.8m

Singaporean fund manager Aims APAC REIT has completed the acquisition of Woolworths’ Sydney headquarters and data center. AA REIT closed the transaction earlier in the week by paying AU$463.25 million (US$336.8m) to Inmark Asset Management Pty Ltd. In doing so, it has acquired the campus in...

October 01, 2021

Woolworths

Equinix completes expansion of its SY5 data center in Sydney

Equinix has completed the expansion of its SY5 data center in Sydney. The expansion cost the Company $48 million (AU$66 million). Equinix started the expansion in February. Moreover, Equinix has added a total colocation space of 11,300 square meters (121,000 square feet) with this expansion...

August 20, 2021

Equinix Sydney SY5

Vocus to close its Melbourne data center, to be replaced by $1.5bn office complex

Vocus has announced that it is closing its data center in the Melbourne central business district in September. The facility is going to be demolished and replaced with a massive office complex. Vocus noted that arrangements had been made with customers to move to other facilities. It has a...

August 17, 2021

Vocus Melbourne (55 King) [Site Closed]

NextDC buys land in west Sydney for new data center campus

NextDC just bought a plot of land covering 1,334,724 square feet in West Sydney for the development of a new data center. The site is located at Horsley Park, in New South Wales. This location will be NextDC’s fourth facility in the city, and it will be called S4. NextDC also says subject t...

July 30, 2021

NextDC Sydney S4

3D Pioneer Systems acquires Host Networks

3D Pioneer Systems-DPSM just acquired Host Group of Companies Pty Lt for $2.6 million. Host Group operates a data center on Brandl Street, Eight Mile Plains, Brisbane. Besides, the facility has a capacity of 125 cabinets, and it can be upgraded to 200 cabinets. Also, the data center offers clo...

June 24, 2021

Host Networks BNE1

Inmark Asset Management Wants To Sell Woolworths Sydney HQ and data center

Inmark Asset Management wants to sell Woolworths’ headquarters in Sydney, Australia. It is looking for buyers for the 483,400 square feet site on 1 Woolworths Way, Bella Vista. The 9-hectare site includes three different office buildings that are linked with a foyer. Furthermore, you’ll also f...

June 15, 2021

Woolworths

Australia Plans to Require Government Data To Be Stored In Australian Data Centers

Plans are in place in Australia to require government data stored in data centers in Australia with adequate certifications. The Digital Transformation Agency manages the certifications of data centers under the new Hosting Strategy. Besides, any facility that wants to host government workload...

June 14, 2021

Australia

Stockland to build new data center in Macquarie Park, Sydney

Stockland has announced plans to build a five-story new data center in Sydney, which, according to the Australian Financial Review, might be for Amazon Web Services (AWS). The facility, worth AU$264 million (US$204.3 million), was reportedly fast-tracked by the New South Wales Government due t...

June 09, 2021

Sydney

Real estate firm Hickory enters the data center arena, with plans for a 36MW facility in Melbo

Hickory, an Australian real estate development firm, has announced that it is entering the data center arena with plans to construct a 36MW facility in Truganina, west Melbourne, following development approval from Wyndham City Council.The data center will be built on a 3.5-hectare site and ha...

June 09, 2021

Melbourne

DCI to build data center in Auckland, New Zealand

DCI Data Centers has announced that it is expanding to New Zealand. The Company was recently granted New Zealand Overseas Investment Office consent to buy land for building a data center in Auckland, New Zealand. DCI didn’t reveal the timeline for building the facility, but it is said that co...

June 04, 2021

DCI Auckland AKL01

DUG plans 200 petaflops supercomputing center in Western Australia

DUG Technology just announced that it plans to build the world’s first carbon-free High-Performance Computing (HPC) data center in Geraldton, Australia. The Company said that the new facility would have an earlier compute capacity of over 200 petaflops. It will also have space for multi-exafl...

May 26, 2021

DUG Geraldton

AirTrunk opens 2nd Sydney facility

Airtrunk recently announced the opening of its second Sydney data center- Airtrunk SYD2 to help the growth of cloud customers. The new facility has 110MW of capacity and will be the 3rd largest single-campus data center in the entire Asia-Pacific region. SYD2 is powered by a dedicated 200MVA 1...

March 23, 2021

AirTrunk Sydney SYD2

OVH Expands in Sydney and Singapore

The company opened its second data center in Sydney, Australia, and doubled the capacity of its Singapore data center. The APAC region is now home to 3 of the 32 OVHcloud data centers across 4 continents.OVH Press Release on Feb 2nd, 2021: As part of its global growth strategy, OVHcloud Unveil...

February 02, 2021

OVH Sydney SYD-1

NEXTDC launches P2

NEXTDC has officially launched its new P2 data center in Perth. The initial phase has 1 megawatt of capacity. When fully built out the building will support 20 MW. P2 is directly connected to NEXTDC’s P1 Perth data centre in Malaga via NEXTDC’s Data Centre Interconnect (DCI) services. ...

August 01, 2020

NextDC Perth P2

AirTrunk announces a Second Sydney Data Centre

AirTrunk has announced its plans to build a second hyperscale data center in Sydney, with the new installation of more than 110 megawatts to complement its two existing ones. The new data center, which will open in 2020, will be located in northern Sydney and will be known as SYD2. The facilit...

November 21, 2019

AirTrunk Sydney SYD2

NEXTDC appointed Enterprise data centre provider for Queensland Government

NextDC will provide the Queensland government with data center-as-a-Service (DCaaS) solutions from its Brisbane facilities. The Australian colo company is the second provider to join the Queensland government’s ICT supplier panel in addition to Pulse Data Centre. NEXTDC's Announcement:We have ...

March 26, 2019

NEXTDC Brisbane B1

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