SYDNEY – The boom in building datacentres in Australia continues with UK-based Global Switch beginning construction of the first stage of its $300 million second Australian datacentre, and cloud provider Elastichosts – another Brit – opening a new datacentre in Sydney along with four others around the world.
This closely follows the recent opening of US-based Digital Realty’s Digital datacentre in Erskine Park, Sydney.<\/p>\n
Global Switch’s Sydney-based datacentre will occupy 24,000 square metres and be called Sydney East. <\/p>\n
It will be built on Global Switch’s campus next to its existing Sydney West datacentre, close to the CBD.The first stage, about a third of the total project, is expected to be completed by Q1 next year.<\/p>\n
Some 50 per cent of anchor tenants for stage one have been secured, Global Switch says, with the remaining capacity expected to be sold before Sydney East goes live.<\/p>\n
The company has datacentres in London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Paris and Madrid but is increasingly looking for business aimed at Asia. <\/p>\n
“With the Asia-Pacific region at the centre of global growth, Australia is in a unique position as a safe and reliable location from which to service that market,” said executive chairman John Corcoran. <\/p>\n
He has also recently announced plans to build new datacentres in Singapore and Hong Kong.- Meanwhile Elastichosts has opened a datacentre in Sydney, with CEO Richard Davies characterising the region as an “obvious choice” for the cloud provider.<\/p>\n
“It is developed, has a strong business sector, a mature IT infrastructure, as well as the fact that we share the same language, so we see great opportunities here,” he said. <\/p>\n
“As businesses expand, they need scalable solutions that can support this which is creating a growing appetite for cloud-based services.”<\/p>\n
London-based Elastichosts also has installations in the UK, Amsterdam and the USA’s Silicon Valley, along with a new datacentre in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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