According to an announcement posted on LinkedIn by Robin Khuda, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at AirTrunk in the evening (AEST) of June 28th, the company is scheduling a “huge expansion” in AirTrunk’s Melbourne West (MEL1) campus to support the growth of the company’s customers.
This expansion will include the construction of the remaining 3 phases of the 6 phases in MEL1 campus that will deliver over 100MW of new IT load.
At 185MW total campus capacity, MEL1 is one of the largest and most connected data centres in Australia supporting all major availability zones offering Public Cloud and Artificial Intelligence (AI) services.
The statement concludes: “Our current 100MW+ expansion will provide over one billion-dollars of direct investment in Melbourne over the next 18 months creating more than 1,000 jobs during the construction phase and a significant number of new highly skilled technical and operational jobs in the Western Melbourne area”.
“An exciting time for AirTrunk, and AirTrunkers as AI comes to Melbourne!”