July 07, 2022 AirTrunk Sydney
AirTrunk has completed the fifth and last building at its SYD1 data center campus in Sydney, Australia. The company announced the completion of the campus’ first phase in 2017. The campus also sits on over seven hectares of land. In addition, the site features 337,000 square feet (35,000 square...
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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 31, 2022 Macquarie: IC3 East
Macquarie Data Centres has announced the launch of its Intellicentre 3 East data center in Sydney, Australia. The facility is located at the Macquarie Park Data Centre Campus in North Sydney. According to Macquarie, the new facility cost over AU$85 million (US$63.9 million). The 16MW facility was...
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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 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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