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Read Rackspace to Deploy 30MW of AMD AI Infrastructure Across Data Centers
Rackspace has signed an agreement with AMD to deploy 30MW of AI infrastructure across its data centers, targeting customers in regulated sectors such as healthcare. The rollout will begin later thi...

Rackspace to Deploy 30MW of AMD AI Infrastructure Across Data Centers

June 17, 2026 Rackspace

Rackspace has signed an agreement with AMD to deploy 30MW of AI infrastructure across its data centers, targeting customers in regulated sectors such as healthcare. The rollout will begin later this year and continue through 2028, with the capacity intended to support AI training and inference...

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Read Starwood, Doma, and Telstra Plan New Facility in Sydney
Starwood, Doma, and Telstra Plan New Facility in Sydney

Starwood, Doma, and Telstra Plan New Facility in Sydney

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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Read Global Switch confirms search for co-investor
Global Switch confirms search for co-investor

Global Switch confirms search for co-investor

January 03, 2025 Sydney

Global Switch recently announced that the sale of its Sydney data center business to HMC Capital had closed, and has officially confirmed previous reports it was seeking external investment for its London campus.“As part of its financing strategy to drive future growth, Global Switch has also...

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Read Energy Vault partners with RSDC for novel battery storage system
Energy Vault partners with RSDC for novel battery storage system

Energy Vault partners with RSDC for novel battery storage system

December 12, 2024 Rackspace

Energy Vault has partnered with data center operator RSDC to deliver 2GW/20GWh of primary power to RSDC data centers through its battery energy storage system (BESS). Energy Vault will deploy its B-Nest BESS, a modular multi-story structure designed to house stackable lithium-ion BESS units at...

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Read Engineering Firm Woolpert acquires Greenbox Architecture
Engineering Firm Woolpert acquires Greenbox Architecture

Engineering Firm Woolpert acquires Greenbox Architecture

October 10, 2024 Sydney

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 to...

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Read Atturra expands sovereign cloud in NextDC Sydney data center
Atturra expands sovereign cloud in NextDC Sydney data center

Atturra expands sovereign cloud in NextDC Sydney data center

August 05, 2024 Sydney

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 its...

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Read WSI selects CDC Data Centres for digital tower deployment
WSI selects CDC Data Centres for digital tower deployment

WSI selects CDC Data Centres for digital tower deployment

March 15, 2024 Sydney

Western Sydney International Airport (WSI) has selected CDC Data Centres for its digital tower deployment. WSI will be one of the first in Australia to run a digital air traffic control tower and has partnered with CDC, Frequentis Australasia, and Airservices to develop the system. WSI will...

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Read WSI selects CDC Data Centres for digital tower deployment
WSI selects CDC Data Centres for digital tower deployment

WSI selects CDC Data Centres for digital tower deployment

March 12, 2024 Sydney

Western Sydney International Airport (WSI) has selected CDC Data Centres for its digital tower deployment. WSI will be one of the first in Australia to run a digital air traffic control tower and has partnered with CDC, Frequentis Australasia, and Airservices to develop the system. WSI will...

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Read Diraq secures $15 million in a Series 2-A funding round
Diraq secures $15 million in a Series 2-A funding round

Diraq secures $15 million in a Series 2-A funding round

February 14, 2024 Sydney

Quantum computing startup Diraq has raised $15 million in a Series 2-A funding round led by specialist investor Quantonation, a venture capital fund dedicated to quantum technologies, with participation from Higgins Family Investments and the University of New South Wales, Sydney. This latest...

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Read Data center leased by Rackspace for sale in Kansas City, Missouri
Data center leased by Rackspace for sale in Kansas City, Missouri

Data center leased by Rackspace for sale in Kansas City, Missouri

June 06, 2023 Rackspace

A data center occupied by Rackspace is for sale in Kansas City, Missouri. Collers are offering 10828 NW Airworld Drive as a "long-term NNN lease investment opportunity." No sale price was disclosed. The two-story, 77,545-square-foot building was built 1982 on 5.2 acres and came with a...

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Read Rackspace Experiences Disruptions in London, Sydney and Hong Kong
Rackspace Experiences Disruptions in London, Sydney and Hong Kong

Rackspace Experiences Disruptions in London, Sydney and Hong Kong

May 31, 2023 Rackspace

Rackspace is presently experiencing an outage across its European and Asia-Pacific data centers. In their SYD2, LON5, LON3, and HKG5 data centers, they encountered connectivity issues. Later, Rackspace announced that it had been discovered that any affected Linux VMs (virtual machines) would...

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

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

May 03, 2023 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 have...

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Read Lacework announces availability of Sydney based data center
Lacework announces availability of Sydney based data center

Lacework announces availability of Sydney based data center

March 01, 2023 Sydney

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 Zealand...

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Read DigitalOcean announces new facility in Sydney
DigitalOcean announces new facility in Sydney

DigitalOcean announces new facility in Sydney

November 16, 2022 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, and...

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Read Optus-Occupied Facility Up For Sale in Sydney
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Optus-Occupied Facility Up For Sale in Sydney

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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Read Australia's Trifalga launches data center unit, plans 800,000 sq ft data center in Sydney
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Australia's Trifalga launches data center unit, plans 800,000 sq ft data center in Sydney

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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Read Stockland to build new data center in Macquarie Park, Sydney
Stockland to build new data center in Macquarie Park, Sydney

Stockland to build new data center in Macquarie Park, Sydney

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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Read Rackspace Appoints Third CEO in Two Years
Rackspace Appoints Third CEO in Two Years

Rackspace Appoints Third CEO in Two Years

April 25, 2019 Rackspace

Managed Cloud Service Provider Rackspace has appointed Kevin M Jones as their new Chief Executive Officer. It's the company's third CEO in two years. Jones was CEO at MV Transportation, the largest private paratransit service in the United States. Before MV Transportation, he held positions at...

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Read Rackspace and Switch Partner to host Rackspace Private Cloud in Switch Facilities (PR)
Rackspace and Switch Partner to host Rackspace Private Cloud in Switch Facilities (PR)

Rackspace and Switch Partner to host Rackspace Private Cloud in Switch Facilities (PR)

April 02, 2018 Rackspace

Switch and Rackspace announced a new agreement to deliver Rackspace private cloud solutions and connectivity to managed public cloud solutions on AWS, Azure and Google in Switch’s highly secure and reliable Tier 5® Platinum data center PRIME locations. The agreement builds on Rackspace’s...

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