NSW Goverment announces new Investment Delivery Authority and funds Innovation Drive
Big announcements by the NSW government at NEXTDC this morning [June 23rd 2025] as Craig Scroggie hosted NSW Premier Chris Minns, Treasurer Daniel Mookhey, Planning Minister Paul Scully and Industry and Trade Minister The Hon. Anoulack Chanthivong MP announced the new Investment Delivery Authority (IDA) to accelerate +$1bn investment projects. The New South Wales government […]
Amazon investing AU$20 billion to expand data center infrastructure in Australia and strengthen the nation’s AI future
Amazon today [June 14th 2025] announced plans to invest a new total of AU$20 billion from 2025 to 2029 to expand, operate, and maintain its data center infrastructure in Australia. The country’s largest publicly-announced global technology investment will support the strong growth in customer demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI), accelerating AI adoption […]
NEXTDC Announces $2 Billion AI Factory and Technology Campus at Fishermans Bend
Melbourne, Australia: NEXTDC (ASX:NXT), Australia’s leading data centre-as-a-service provider, today announced a $2 billion (AUD) commitment to develop M4 Melbourne — a next-generation digital campus at 127 Todd Road, Port Melbourne. M4 will feature an AI Factory, Mission Critical Operations Centre, and Technology Centre of Excellence. Purpose-built for sovereign AI, HPC, advanced manufacturing and deep […]
NEXTDC Updates Information on Contracted Utilisation and Forward Order Book
NEXTDC Limited (ASX: NXT) has announced that, following recent customer contract wins, the Company’s pro forma contracted utilisation [1] as at 31 May 2025 has increased by 16MW (7%) to 244MW since the last update on 6 May 2025. The largest increase in contracted utilisation has come from NEXTDC’s data centre under development in Kuala […]
La Trobe University: Advancing AI innovation with NVIDIA supercomputer
The supercomputer behind Australia’s first artificial intelligence-powered medical innovation centre has officially been switched on. La Trobe University’s deployment of NVIDIA DGX H200 systems are the first to be commissioned at a university in Australia, giving scientists the ability to push the boundaries of AI-driven medical and biotech research. The supercomputer’s arrival follows the launch […]
Measuring AI’s power appetite ‘bottom-up’
AI’s Energy Footprint By 2025, AI could be drawing as much electricity as some mid-sized European nations, and the numbers are only accelerating. As a result, significant media attention has focused on the increasing power demand of AI applications as a whole. And yet, despite this growing attention to AI’s energy footprint, the actual evolution […]
Sydney slips out of global top 10 data centre markets
Sydney, along with Tokyo and Mumbai, has fallen out of the global top 10 established data centre markets, according to the latest report by Cushman & Wakefield. The report, which analyses 97 global markets, highlights how power access, land acquisition, and infrastructure have emerged as critical variables shaping where and how data centre facilities are […]
Australia to update grid rules amid surging data centre demand
New Rules in ‘Package 2’ The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) – which sets the rules that underpin Australia’s National Energy Market (NEM) that interconnects five eastern and southern states – is seeking stakeholder feedback on new rules, dubbed ‘Package 2’, which seeks to address the projected growth of large-scale electricity users, particularly data centres […]
Australian Stock Exchange launches New Colocation Infrastructure Service: ASX Colo OnDemand
The Australian Stock Exchange [ASX] has announced the launch of ASX Colo OnDemand , a new infrastructure service that gives customers access to scalable and secure infrastructure that connects them to the Australian Liquidity Centre (ALC), a data centre that operates at the heart of Australia’s financial markets. [May 22nd 2025] In partnership with technology […]
New Report suggests Green Energy Transition at risk from ‘unrestricted data centre development’
A new Report from the Öko-Institut and commissioned by Greenpeace, suggests that “unregulated data centre development could serve as a boost for fossil fuels and limit renewable energy development”. Further, it states that “strict new guidelines are required to ensure artificial intelligence doesn’t threaten climate goals” The study focuses also on the likely impact of […]