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 […]
NEXTDC’s Craig Scroggie will chair Data Centres Australia’s inaugural board
A new industry body, Data Centres Australia (DCA), has appointed its inaugural board as it seeks to position Australia as a regional hub for AI infrastructure and large-scale digital investment. Craig Scroggie, chief executive and managing director of NEXTDC, has been named chair. He will lead a board that includes senior representatives from AirTrunk, Amazon […]
Yondr Group raises £532m in debut ABS financing
Yondr Group, a hyperscale data center developer, owner and operator has raised £532 million (US$ 670 million) through its first public capital market transaction after pricing securitised term notes backed by data center assets. The issuance also marks the company’s first bond transaction under its Green Finance Framework. According to a company press release, the […]
Paper explores engagement models for Australia’s data centre expansion
A new academic paper by UTS Transdisciplinary School academic Dr Bronwyn Cumbo argues that participatory design could provide a structured way for local governments and communities to engage with Australia’s rapidly expanding data centre sector, as state governments accelerate support for new developments. The paper, Opportunities for Participatory Design in Shaping Australia’s Data Centre Futures, […]
Goodman files plans for 500 MW Sydney campus as expansion continues
Goodman Group has lodged plans for a 500 MW data centre campus at Eastern Creek in western Sydney, signalling a potential AUD 5 billion investment as competition intensifies for power, land and approvals in Australia’s largest data centre market. The company has filed an environmental assessment with the New South Wales government for a large-scale […]
Keppel secures 720MW powerbank site Near Melbourne for AI DC campus
Keppel has secured rights to a large-scale data centre site near Morwell in Victoria, adding up to 720MW of gross power capacity to its development pipeline and lifting its total Asia-Pacific powerbank to more than 1GW. The Singapore-based asset manager said its Connectivity Division has entered into an agreement with Australian energy and infrastructure landowner […]
Equinix sees structural shift in ANZ AI infrastructure by 2026
Australia and New Zealand’s data centre market is entering a more operational phase of AI deployment, as organisations shift their focus from experimentation to production-scale use, according to Equinix Australia managing director Guy Danskine. He said Australia is seeing “an unprecedented level of interest in AI”, driven by both enterprise demand and government policy, but […]
2026 to see chip power, cooling, memory and energy systems converge
AI data centre development is entering a more complex and capital-intensive phase, according to Taiwan-based analysts TrendForce who have laid out what they think the key trends will be in 2026. This new phase is due to growth in AI workloads beginning to expose structural constraints across compute, cooling, memory, power delivery and energy storage. […]
AirTrunk to add 345 MW facility in AUD 5bn Melbourne investment
AirTrunk announced plans to add more than AUD 5 billion in new direct investment and lift its total deployable capacity in Melbourne to over 630 MW. The Asia Pacific & Middle East hyperscale data centre builder and operator announced the acquisition of a new site in Melbourne’s North-west for its second Melbourne campus, to be known as […]