Equinix Melbourne ME2

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Equinix Melbourne ME2

Year Built: 2020
Floors: 5
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Building


  • Colocation Space: 4,070 sqm(43,809 ft2)
  • Building Type: 5-story, reinforced concrete building with 3 data hall floors meeting all local structural codes
  • Floor Type: Raised
  • Floor Load Capacity: 12 kN/m2

Power


  • Power and Cooling Density: 3.6 kVA per cabinet
  • Utility Feeders: 2
  • UPS Configuration: Block redundant
  • UPS Redundancy: N+1
  • Standby Power Configuration: 3 x 3.0 MVA generators
  • Standby Power Redundancy: N+1

Certifications


  • SOC 1 Type II
  • SOC 2 Type II
  • ISO 27001
  • PCI DSS
  • ISO 9001:2015
  • ISO 22301
  • ISO 14001

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0.09 miles Equinix Melbourne ME1
0.54 miles NEXTDC: M4 Melbourne
This Tier IV data center will encompass 50,000 square meters and include an AI Factory.
0.91 miles NEXTDC: M1 Melbourne
NEXTDC's M1 facility is the best-connected data centre in Melbourne and is certified to UTI Tier III standard.
1.31 miles Interactive Melbourne
1.47 miles GreenSquare: Melbourne Campus
Australian data center firm GreenSquare is expanding into Melbourne with plans for a new hyperscale campus, designated as MEL1, located on a former petrochemical storage site in Spotswood.
2.26 miles Vocus Melbourne (55 King) [Site Closed]
2.27 miles MDC 530 Collins
2.27 miles Vocus: MEL03
VDC-MEL03 data center is located at 530 Collins Street in Melbourne. The company moved into the former ASX building in 2013 and said at the time it could build out to 400 racks.
2.29 miles Equinix ME5
The company acquired from Metronode in 2018.
2.66 miles ADC: Melbourne campus
Australian Data Centres (ADC) is planning an AI-optimised campus in Melbourne.
2.97 miles NEXTDC: M3West Footscray
In 2022, NextDC launched M3, the company's third data center in Melbourne, the capital city of Victoria, Australia. The facility is located in West Footscray, about 10km west of Melbourne's Central Business District.
3.08 miles Telstra: Exhibition
The Exhibition data center is located in Melbourne's CBD. It's one of two Telstra InfraCo data centers in Melbourne. The facility offers colocation services and is connected to its counterpart via fiber networks.
3.09 miles Central PointInterested in this information?Contact us
The technology giant acquired this property from Australian developer in 2021 for AU$90 million (US$66.8m).
3.10 miles Centuria: Yarraville
Centuria Industrial REIT acquired the warehouse site at 1 Hardie Road and 2-8 Cawley Road, Yarraville, in late 2025 for A$30.2 million.
3.17 miles North TowerInterested in this information?Contact us
3.41 miles Stockland: Brooklyn, Melbourne
Australian property group Stockland plans to develop a data center campus in Brooklyn, Melbourne.
3.87 miles CDC: Brooklyn 1
CDC’s Brooklyn campus expansion in Melbourne, formally opened in early 2026 at an existing site that has operated since 2024, adds about 155MW and brings two operational facilities online, with a third planned and total campus capacity targeted at 350MW+
6.60 miles Stockland: Melbourne Campus
Stockland has filed a planning permit application to develop a data center campus in Laverton, Melbourne.
7.48 miles Equinix ME4
7.76 miles CDC: Laverton Campus
Construction has officially begun on CDC's $2.7 billion Laverton data campus in Melbourne, with groundbreaking taking place in February 2025.
7.88 miles Airtrunk: MEL1 Bldg-1
AirTrunk is expanding its Melbourne campus. This expansion will include the construction of the remaining three phases of the six phases in MEL1 campus that will deliver over 100MW of new IT load.
7.88 miles Datacom: AirTrunk MEL1
AirTrunk MEL1 is the largest data centre in Victoria (by MW capacity). Datacom's colocation suite at MEL1 is part of its trans-Tasman interconnected data centre network that spans Datacom's two Australian locations and four New Zealand data centres.
7.92 miles Digital Realty: MEL10
7.98 miles Airtrunk: MEL1 Bldg-2
8.01 miles Digital Realty: Melbourne 72 Radnor
The 3.00 hectare location has 2 buildings and is approximately 16km North West of Melbourne CBD and offers excellent diversity from a power and connectivity perspective.
8.07 miles Digital Realty: MEL12
8.15 miles NEXTDC: M2 Melbourne Tullamarine
M2 Melbourne is a Tier IV certified data centre situated in Tullamarine, conveniently located near major transport and telecommunications infrastructure.
8.21 miles Vantage Melbourne MEL1
Vantage is building one multi-story data center on its MEL1 site in Tullamarine, Melbourne.
8.40 miles AirTrunk: Melbourne MEL2
Leading APAC data center developer AirTrunk has finalized the acquisition of a new site in Melbourne for its second regional campus, MEL2.
8.41 miles AirTrunk: MEL2 Expansion
8.78 miles Campus MaxInterested in this information?Contact us
9.00 miles Carrier-Neutral Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us
Vantage planned the MEL-C campus at 185 Leakes Road in Truganina, west of Melbourne.
9.07 miles Carrier-Neutral Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us
This facility is part of Vantage's MEL-C campus in Melbourne, Australia.
9.17 miles STACK Melbourne MEL01
In 2023, Stack Infrastructure announced the completion of its first Asia Pacific (APAC) data center, known as MEL01.
9.17 miles STACK: MEL01B
MEL01B is the second data center building of Stack Infrastructure's Melbourne campus.
9.17 miles STACK: MEL01D
This facility is part of Stack Infrastructure's MEL01 campus in Melbourne.
9.18 miles STACK: MEL01C
This facility is part of Stack Infrastructure's MEL01 campus in Melbourne.
9.25 miles STACK: MEL02B
This facility is part of Stack Infrastructure's MEL02 Campus in Melbourne.
9.25 miles STACK: Melbourne MEL02
Stack Infrastructure's MEL02 data center campus is strategically positioned near the existing MEL01 campus in Truganina, Melbourne.
9.67 miles West RidgeInterested in this information?Contact us
10.40 miles Carrier-Neutral Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us
10.52 miles Centuria: Thomastown Keon Park
Thomastown and Keon Park is CIP’s largest data centre conversion site, a 10.6 hectare industrial holding about 17 km north of Melbourne’s CBD and less than 100 metres from the Thomastown terminal station.
10.54 miles Carrier-Neutral Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us
Vantage plans to build a second data center campus in Melbourne, Australia.
10.57 miles Hyperscale Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us
11.36 miles Zerra DC: Melbourne Campus
Zerra DC has filed a planning permit application with the state of Victoria to develop a six-building data center campus in Campbellfield, north of Melbourne, Australia.
13.52 miles PGIM: Melbourne Campus
PGIM Real Estate has expanded its digital infrastructure footprint with the acquisition of a 20.7-hectare site in a western suburb of Melbourne, marking the first Australian investment for its $2 billion Global Data Center Fund.
13.59 miles Goodman: RBR Hub
13.61 miles Centuria: Clayton 2
Centuria Industrial REIT is planning to build a high-capacity, AI-ready facility at its industrial campus in Melbourne's southeast.
13.64 miles Centuria: Clayton 1
CIP acquired the Telstra data centre campus in Clayton, Melbourne, in 2020 through a sale leaseback for about A$417 million.
13.65 miles Telstra: Clayton Campus
In 2021, Australian telco Telstra converted two of its own-use data centers into carrier-neutral colocation facilities.
14.86 miles Vocus: MEL04
Vocus acquired this facility from Enterprise Data Corporation (EDC) in February 2015.
16.76 miles Goodman: Craigieburn
17.10 miles Fujitsu Noble Park
19.00 miles ValleyInterested in this information?Contact us
Amazon is planning a $50m data center on a 13.2-hectare site at 54-80 Ferris Road, Cobblebank, about 40km west of Melbourne’s center.

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