BESIX Watpac, an Australian construction and civil engineering company, has broken ground on the Garden Drive Microsoft Data Centre, one of three new generation data centers currently under construction in Melbourne, Victoria.
According to Arizton, a market research and consultancy firm, the Australian data center market is anticipated to reach USD 9.6 billion by 2027, expanding at a CAGR of 7.67% from 2022 to 2027. Government initiatives, expanded connectivity, technological advancements, the adoption of HPC technologies, growing cloud presence, and rising data center investments are all contributing to the market’s considerable growth.
The Australia data center market is highly competitive. The prominent players operating in the Australia data center market include ABB Ltd., Arista Networks Inc., Atos Information Technology Incorporated, Broadcom Inc., Caterpillar Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Cummins Inc., Dell Technologies Inc., Delta Electronics Inc., Eaton Corporation plc, HITEC Power Protection B.V., International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), Legrand SA, Lenovo Group Limited, NetApp Inc., Rittal GmbH & Co. KG, Schneider Electric SE, STULZ GmbH, The Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company.
Currently, located in Tullamarine, construction of the new data center kicked off with a site blessing and sod turning hosted on 5 December 2022 in Melbourne, Victoria.
BESIX Watpac was awarded the contract to build the facility in August 2022 and commenced groundworks shortly after in October. The construction company’s General Manager Victoria and South Australia Simon Ballard said Garden Drive would be the third consecutive data center built by BESIX Watpac in the past five years.
“Data centers are highly complex infrastructure assets, and our team brings the specialist construction skills necessary to build what Microsoft needs to meet the growing digital demands of Australian communities,” said Simon Ballard
