Tag: Data Centre

Services Australia inks $226m data centre deal

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Services Australia will pay the largest provider of data centre services to the federal government almost $4 million per month over the next five years under a new hosting...

Australia must find its place in the global AI economy

Posted on   |  by Helen Zhang
The global AI race is fully taking shape. Billions have been invested by leading frontier AI developers like OpenAI in the United States and Huawei in China. Beyond Washington...

National data centre strategy talks break cover

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Albanese government is in early talks with industry to develop a national data centre strategy that helps steer the sector as the immense compute needs of AI workloads...

China-linked investors offload Sydney data centre for $2b

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Chinese-owned data centre provider Global Switch Australia will be acquired by asset manager HMC Capital for $2 billion, more than four years after federal government agencies were told to...

Data centre sector to add $26b by 2030

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Australian data centre capacity is expected to double by 2030, attracting more than $26 billion in new investment in the process, according to a report that also calls for...

Powering the nation’s data centre opportunity

Posted on   |  by Belinda Dennett
Have you ever stopped to think about where all the digital services you use each day physically reside, or what powers them? Whether you access them on your mobile,...

NextDC expands footprint to SA amid data centre boom

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
NextDC has opened its first data centre in Adelaide, providing the government, defence and space sectors with greater access to critical digital infrastructure amid an AI-driven compute boom. The...

AI boom driving a surge in carbon emissions

Posted on   |  by Gordon Noble and Fiona Berry
Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the world has seen an incredible surge in investment, development and use of artificial intelligence applications. According to one estimate, the...