29,300 SQUARE FEET OF COLOCATION SPACE Equinix has just announced the opening of its fourth International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Melbourne, Australia. The $77.5 million facility is code-named ME2 and it now offers more than 29,300 square feet…
GOLDMAN SACHS CALLS FOR BIDDERS Australia-based hyperscale data center company Airtrunk, is now up for an auction conducted by Goldman Sachs which values the company at $2.06 billion. Goldman Sachs is reported to have started reaching out to bidders, as…
THE A$136.6M SUBSEA CABLE SYSTEM Australian telecoms firm Vocus, has confirmed the completion of the Coral Sea Cable System which connects Sydney, Honiara, Port Moresby and the Solomon Islands. The project which includes the 4,700km Coral Sea cable, as well…
MACQUARIE’S THIRD DATA CENTER IN SYDNEY Australian Macquarie Data Centres, an arm of Macquarie Telecom Group has broken ground for its third data center in Sydney, Australia. Known as Intellicentre 3 (IC3) East, the new facility is set to be…
A $1 BILLION (AUD) HYPERSCALE FACILITY Australian hyperscale data center provider Airtrunk, has confirmed it plans to build a new 110MW data center in Sydney, Australia. With an investment of 1 billion AUD (approx. 680 million USD), the company plans…
EIGHTH IN SYDNEY AND LARGEST IN AUSTRALIA Colocation and interconnection company Equinix, has just opened its new Sydney data center facility SY5 which costs the company about $160 million (USD). SY5 is located in Alexandria, about 2.5 miles (4 kilometers)…
NEXTDC P2 JUST GOT A SIBLING Australian data center operator NextDC, has launched its first micro data center in the central business district of Perth, capital of Western Australia. Built to offer host interconnection services, the new micro or edge…
IBM CLOUD DIRECT LINK DEDICATED HOSTING SERVICE Digital Realty has just added IBM Cloud Direct Link to its services at the 3.5-hectare data center campus in Sydney, Australia. This Digital Realty facility, which is on Templar Road, Erskine Park, will…
CATEGORY-5 CYCLONE-PROOF FACILITY Australia-based data center provider iSeek, has just launched its new North Queensland Regional data center in Townsville, Australia. The data center facility which is set on the lower floor of the new Local Disaster Coordination Centre (LDCC),…
KEPPEL ACQUIRES LAND IN SYDNEY Singapore based Keppel Data Centers, has just acquired a 3,840 square meter (41,300 square foot) plot of land in Sydney, Australia, for the construction of its new data center. The land is located next to…
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