February 19, 2024 Australia
Australia’s Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre in Perth will deploying Nvidia’s CUDA Quantum computing platform at its National Supercomputing and Quantum Computing Innovation Hub. This platform is Nvidia's open-source hybrid quantum computing platform that uses quantum simulation tools and...
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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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January 08, 2024 Australia
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) recently announced plans to decommission its head office data center in Sydney and relocate to a colocation facility. Moreso, other RBA data centers will get an all-new core infrastructure, and the Bank will migrate all of its applications and workloads to that...
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November 25, 2023 Australia
Australian superannuation fund Rest Super announced this week that it is investing $656 million in a data center and battery storage project from Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners in Brisbane. This investment will expose it to several assets, including solar and battery projects, green data...
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September 06, 2023 Australia
TPG Telecom is selling part of its Sydney, Australia, data center and office space. Interest submissions can be submitted to Colliers for 30 Ross Street in the Forest Lodge neighborhood until October 3. The building is an "infrastructure-quality asset" with a working data center and extra office...
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June 16, 2023 AirTrunk Sydney SYD2
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...
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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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April 19, 2023 Adelaide
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...
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April 12, 2023 Australia
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 Australian...
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March 14, 2023 Vocus Melbourne (55 King) [Site Closed]
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 AEDT on...
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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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February 16, 2023 Melbourne
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, sitting...
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December 02, 2022 Australia
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...
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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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October 30, 2022 NEXTDC: M3West Footscray
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 441,300...
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October 24, 2022 Perth
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 Metro...
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October 12, 2022 Perth
Urbis Pty Ltd, a design and planning firm, is reportedly applying to build an AU$600 million (US$379m) data center campus in the Belmont area of Perth, Australia, at 37 Abernethy Road. The application lists the client as GreenSquareDC, an “emerging sustainability-oriented data center provider’....
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September 02, 2022 Equinix Melbourne ME2
Equinix has announced that it has completed the expansion of its second Melbourne data center in Australia. The expansion cost the company $23 million (US$ 15.7m). Equinix first opened the ME2 data center in February 2020. The company acquired 500 new cabinets to increase the data center’s total...
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August 02, 2022 NextDC: S3 Sydney
NextDC has announced the launch of its S3 Sydney facility in Sydney, Australia. The Australian data center company announced on LinkedIn that S3 is now open and ready for customer tours. NextDC first started work on the S3 facility in March 2021. The company also revealed that it would have an...
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July 08, 2022 Australia
American fracking company Black Mountain's announcement that it will partner with crypto mining firm Highwire to use fracked gas from its planned Valhalla exploration project in Kimberley to power cryptocurrency mining has been met with significant opposition. According to Black Mountain, it has...
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