April 07, 2023 New Zealand
Spark New Zealand has outlined it will inject between $156 million to $189m into data center expansion, as part of a new three-year strategy. As part of this strategy, it will also work on new technologies, in order to open up new commercialisation opportunities across its core markets of mobile...
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April 06, 2023 New Zealand
The New Zealand government has been constructing a $188 million data center in secrecy at its Auckland air force station. Defense and GCSB Minister Andrew Little made the announcement of the project, noting that the location originally received the money in 2019. 150 construction workers have...
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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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February 13, 2023 New Zealand
Datacom has announced that all its facilities in New Zealand are now powered by renewable energy. This is part of a ten-year contract with Mercury Energy, through which its data centers will run on geothermal, wind, and hydro energy sources from the company.As per the deal, the company has signed...
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December 09, 2022 New Zealand
According to Stuff.co.nz, DataGrid has filed an application to develop its first data center in southern New Zealand. The company filed the application with Southland District Council for a new facility in Makarewa, outside Invercargill. Plans for the data center in December 2020. The CEO of...
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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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July 11, 2022 Auckland
Zscaler has announced that it has launched a new co-located data center in Canberra and a second co-located data center in Auckland, in a bid to offer both public and private sector enterprises in Australia and New Zealand "greater resilience" in support of their "zero trust cybersecurity...
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June 10, 2022 New Zealand
T4 Group has announced that it would house its planned Tier IV facility in New Zealand’s South Island at a hotel in Invercargill. The hotel will also use the data center’s waste heat. T4 first announced plans for the data center in March 2022. The company revealed that it would invest $30 million...
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May 10, 2022 New Zealand
Grid Share has announced that it plans to launch a bitcoin mining data center in New Zealand's south island. The facility will be built next to a hydroelectric dam, the Pioneer Energy-owned Monowai Power Station, with whom Grid Share has partnered to supply energy. The 2MW facility will utilize...
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March 30, 2022 New Zealand
T4 Group has announced its plans to build a Tier IV-quality modular data center on New Zealand’s South Island. The facility, which will see a NZ$50 million ($34.6m) investment, will reportedly source its energy from Southland’s two hydro stations, in Lake Manapouri and Lake Monowai, making it the...
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March 17, 2022 New Zealand
Contact Energy has received the green light to build a cryptomine data center in New Zealand after approval was granted for the company’s resource consent application. This comes despite the significant amount of controversy around proposals. Critics argue that the facility will not benefit...
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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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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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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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