Australian Data Centres (ADC) has expanded its presence in the nation’s capital with the acquisition of a second operational data centre campus in Fyshwick, strengthening its position as a provider of sovereign hosting infrastructure for government and enterprise customers.
The company confirmed that both its Canberra sites are now fully operational and certified as Strategic under the Australian Government Hosting Certification Framework, a standard designed to ensure secure and resilient environments for sensitive public-sector workloads. ADC said the acquisition forms a core part of its broader national expansion plans.
ADC CEO Mark Pont said the Fyshwick campus had already been integrated into the company’s operations and would help meet rising demand for secure, high-availability facilities. “It strengthens our ability to meet increasing demand for secure, high-availability facilities that underpin government and enterprise digital services,” he said. “The new site has been fully integrated into our existing operations, has been Certified Strategic under the Hosting Certification Framework and provides additional optionality and redundancy.”
Pont said ADC’s focus is on offering customers more choice in the Canberra market as well as at future growth locations around the country. He highlighted the company’s “scalable powered land bank”, supported by partnerships and investment structures, as a mechanism for delivering new capacity with shorter deployment timelines. “Leveraging our unique, scalable powered land bank… we can deliver capacity at pace and meet evolving needs nationwide,” he said.
Wider ambitions
Executive chairman Rob Kelly said the acquisition reflected the company’s wider ambitions to scale its sovereign hosting capabilities as demand grows for secure digital infrastructure and AI-ready capacity. “A lot of work is going on behind the scenes to enable ADC to offer a new scale of flexible co-location and build-to-suit sovereign data storage solutions tailored to our customers’ long-term requirements,” he said.
Kelly added that the company sees opportunities to expand both traditional data centre capacity and what he referred to as “AI factory footprints”, reflecting the shift towards facilities optimised for high-density, high-power computing. “With a highly experienced management team in place, we are tightly focused on opportunities to scale sovereign data centres and AI factory footprints to meet the needs of customers and Australia’s national capability,” he said.
ADC positions itself as a provider aligned with Australia’s sovereign and domestic national interests, with a particular emphasis on government-grade hosting resilience. The addition of the Fyshwick campus marks a further step in its efforts to build a national platform of secure, certified facilities, with Canberra remaining a key location for public-sector digital infrastructure.
Both of the company’s Canberra campuses continue to operate with remaining capacity available. ADC added that its broader national expansion plans will be communicated directly to customers as new sites and timelines are finalised.