DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Australasia
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Vocus to build 4,000km fiber link between Brisbane and Darwin
The route aims to support growing demand from hyperscaler, neocloud, and enterprise customers
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Victoria, Australia, proposes rules requiring data centers to secure own renewable energy supply
Alongside several other provisions to prevent cost shifting and excessive water use
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Australian Senate calls for nationalized Triple Zero service following several high-profile outages
Telstra operates the system that connects Australian phone calls to 000
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Australia's Optus expands 5G network to Moree, New South Wales
Optus' 5G coverage now reaches 94.5 percent of country's population
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SharonAI buys former printing press outside Albury, Australia
Company hasn't shared details on plans
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Goodman raises $455m for its Hong Kong data center partnership
Will fund construction of Hong Kong data center, due to open in 2028
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AirTrunk partners with Emergence Quantum to explore cryogenic cooling in data centers
Companies buddy up to integrate cryogenic cooling into data centers
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Firmus seeks $5bn raise in Australian IPO - report
Targeting an offering in October
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Australia's NextDC raises AU$1.1bn in convertible notes
More funds for data center build-out
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Nvidia partners with Aussie companies to bring 2GW online by 2027
Chip designer teams up with cloud providers and data center operators in Australia
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FlexSysAI launches grid-flexibility pilot with ResetData, CSIRO, University of Queensland
Will test AI orchestration platform at ResetData data center
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ASC cable break causes connectivity disruption between Perth and Singapore
Repairs are underway
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Goodman Group gets green light for 135MW data center in northern Sydney, Australia
Project first announced in 2024
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Telstra confirms July outage was caused by network timing system failure
As independent report finds that the Australian carrier failed to react to previous warnings after 2020 network upgrade
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Firmus to invest $300m in SubCo's upcoming Australia-US subsea cable
AI firm anchor customer on Bevan Slattery's latest cable project
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Firmus proposes third data center project in Tasmania
Seeks to develop 52MW data center in Wesley Vale
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Diraq and Equinix to deploy first quantum computer inside an Australian commercial data center
System expected to be installed at Sydney site by October 2026
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Amazon signs first APAC battery storage tolling deal with Anza Power in Victoria, Australia
Tied to the Bairnsdale Battery Energy Storage System in Victoria, Australia
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X2M sets up dedicated data center subsidiary and signs a deal for data center project
As Australian IoT company moves into the data center sphere
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Australian gov't drops plans for data center renewable energy mandate - report
After objections from two regional governments
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Gateway Capital files to build 81MW data center in Sydney, Australia
Former industrial site earmarked for five-story facility
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2degrees and One NZ to establish RAN sharing JV in New Zealand
A proposal has been put forward that will see the two carriers combine their respective RAN
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Application filed for 200MW data center in Melbourne, Australia
DoverDC targets second project near South Morang Terminal Station
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APAC data center asset values could reach $1 trillion by 2030 - Cushman & Wakefield
Will require $280 billion in capital expenditure
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Zerra DC files plans for large data center campus in Queensland, Australia
Four-building campus planned next to substation and multiple power plants
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DXN secures AU$12.2m contract to deliver containerized data center to HPC customer
Aus company tapped to deliver 2MW facility to unnamed customer
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FlexSysAI launches AI workload orchestration platform to reduce stress on the grid
Will begin deployments in the Australian market
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Firmus Technologies to acquire Benmax's fabrication, design and projects business
Hoped to strengthen Firmus' AI cloud and data center value chain