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.
Global Switch’s Sydney-based datacentre will occupy 24,000 square metres and be called Sydney East.
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.
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.
The company has datacentres in London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Paris and Madrid but is increasingly looking for business aimed at Asia.
“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.
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.
“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.
“As businesses expand, they need scalable solutions that can support this which is creating a growing appetite for cloud-based services.”
London-based Elastichosts also has installations in the UK, Amsterdam and the USA’s Silicon Valley, along with a new datacentre in Hong Kong.
