March 15, 2022 Australia
A Hansen-occupied three-story data center in Doncaster, Australia, is up for sale. The 39,900 square feet (3,707 square meters) data center is located on 2 Frederick Street in the Melbourne Suburb. Colliers and Fitzroys are responsible for offering the facility for sale. Expressions of interest...
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March 01, 2022 New Zealand
Further details around Datagrid's plans to build a $1 billion carbon-neutral hyperscale data center have been released. To be located in Makarewa near Invercargill, the company's facility will have a capacity of 150 MW and powered by the Manapouri hydropower scheme - making it the first facility...
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February 24, 2022 Sydney
According to ITNews, Fortius has listed its data center at 549 Harris Street, Sydney, Australia, for sale through JLL and CBRE. The data center is currently being occupied by Optus. Optus’ lease on the data center will expire in 2024 with no further option for expansion. This is a 60,300 square...
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February 11, 2022 NextDC: S2 Sydney
NextDC has announced the availability of AWS Direct Connect in the NextDC S2 Sydney data center, the fourth to host AWS Direct Connect (Canberra (C1), Melbourne (M1), and Perth (P1)). According to the company, within the NextDC S2 data center, customers can choose 1 Gbps, 10 Gbps, and new high...
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January 18, 2022 New Zealand
Following the purchase of a 43-hectare site in North Makarewa near Invercargill, Datagrid, is moving forward with its plans to construct a hyperscale facility there, the first of its kind in the area. According to reports, the company will build up to ten 6,500 sqm (70,000 sq ft) modules totaling...
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December 16, 2021 Sydney
Australian real estate company Trifalga is starting a data center unit with plans to have a largescale data center campus in Sydney. Trifalga and Trifalga DC’s first data center project will be an 800,000 square feet data center in Rouse Hill, Sydney. However, Trifalga did not reveal when the...
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December 10, 2021 Melbourne
Australian real estate development company Hickory has begun construction on its first data center in Melbourne. The company first revealed plans for the data center in June. The facility will be located on a 3.5-hectare site in Truganina, West Melbourne. The data center was to have 269,000...
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November 23, 2021 New Zealand
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 Pole....
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November 05, 2021 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 this...
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October 13, 2021 EC3 Bendigo
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 November...
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October 07, 2021 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 2001,...
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October 01, 2021 Woolworths
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...
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August 20, 2021 Equinix Sydney SY5
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. It...
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August 17, 2021 Vocus Melbourne (55 King) [Site Closed]
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 also...
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July 30, 2021 Carrier-Neutral Data Center
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 to...
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June 24, 2021 Host Networks BNE1
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 cloud,...
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June 15, 2021 Woolworths
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 find...
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June 14, 2021 Australia
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 workloads...
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June 09, 2021 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 to...
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June 09, 2021 Melbourne
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 have...
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