Anthropic opens Sydney office as it explores AI infrastructure expansion
AI developer Anthropic is expanding into Australia and New Zealand with a new office in Sydney, signalling growing demand for its Claude models in the region and raising the prospect of additional AI compute infrastructure being deployed locally. The company said the Sydney office will become its fourth location in Asia-Pacific, joining existing sites in […]
Stockland finalises EdgeConneX data centre JV as CEO plots more investment
Australian property developer Stockland has formalised a 50:50 joint venture with US operator EdgeConneX to develop a national portfolio of hyperscale data centres, as the company signals it intends to allocate up to 10 per cent of its capital to the fast-growing digital infrastructure sector. In an update to the Australian Securities Exchange, Stockland confirmed […]
Goodman breaks ground on 90MW Sydney DC as pipeline reaches AUD 18bn
Goodman Group has formally marked the start of construction on a 90MW data centre in northern Sydney, as the developer’s global work in progress approaches AUD 18 billion and its power bank expands to 6 GW across 16 metropolitan markets. The new facility, known as SYD01, is located in Artarmon, around 10 kilometres from Sydney’s […]
VAST, NVIDIA and Cisco unveil integrated AI stack
At VAST Forward 2026 in Singapore, VAST Data used the stage alongside NVIDIA and Cisco to position itself at the heart of a new push to collapse storage, compute and orchestration into a single AI infrastructure stack as regional players, like Australian AI factory start-up Firmus, scale sovereign facilities across Asia-Pacific. The Singapore event underscored […]
Firmus secures “multi-billion-dollar” AI contract for Melbourne
Australia’s Firmus Technologies has signed a long-term, multi-billion-dollar contract with a leading global technology platform for dedicated AI infrastructure capacity at the Melbourne site of its Project Southgate programme. The agreement covers approximately 18,400 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs to be deployed at the Melbourne AI Factory, representing the second large-scale customer secured under Project Southgate. Firmus […]
CDC opens Melbourne campus as Victoria positions for 800 MW
CDC Data Centres has formally opened its first Melbourne data centre campus in Brooklyn, marking what it describes as a major milestone in a multi-billion-dollar investment programme in Victoria. The facility, located in Melbourne’s western suburbs, was officially opened by Jacinta Allan, alongside Danny Pearson, Minister for Economic Growth and Jobs, and Daniel Mulino, Assistant […]
Cisco and Sharon AI unveil AI Factory with 1,024 Blackwell Ultra GPUs
Cisco and SharonAI Holdings have launched what they describe as Australia’s first Cisco Secure AI Factory with Nvidia, a sovereign AI infrastructure platform designed to deliver high-performance compute while keeping all data processing within the country. The deployment, announced in Sydney, is built around 1,024 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs and is hosted in NextDC’s S3 […]
New Zealand could unlock NZD 70bn from data centre exports – BCG
New Zealand has a “genuine right to win” a share of the global AI infrastructure buildout, but must act quickly if it is to convert its renewable energy advantage into a scaled data centre export industry, according to a new report. In Data centres as strategic infrastructure: unlocking value for NZ Inc (February 2026), Boston […]
Goodman tilts pipeline towards data centres as power bank reaches 6GW
Australian-based global real estate company Goodman Group has sharpened its focus on digital infrastructure, with data centres now accounting for the bulk of its development pipeline as the developer expands its global power bank and secures fresh capital partnerships. Reporting an operating profit of AUD 1.2 billion for the half year to 31 December 2025, […]
PGIM acquires 20.7ha Melbourne site for AUD 1.2bn data centre campus
US-based asset manager PGIM has acquired a 20.7-hectare site in Melbourne’s west for a planned data centre campus, marking the first Australian investment for its USD 2 billion (AUD 2.8 billion) Global Data Centre Fund. The site, at 1 Oroya Drive in Truganina, was acquired on behalf of the fund and will form part of […]