Logistics firm DP World Australia has awarded DXN with an AU$2 million ($1.3m) contract for two data centers.

DXN is an Australian data center provider specialising in prefabricated modular buildouts. DP World Australia is the local branch of DP World, an Emirati logistics company.

DXN is contracted to deliver the two units to DP World’s facility in Port Botany, New South Wales by Q3 2025. Port Botany is located south of Sydney and directly east of Sydney Airport.

CEO Shalini Lagrutta said that this “highlights the wide variety of industries, such as transportation, that have a growing need of high-quality on-premise technical infrastructure.”

DXN has capitalized on the needs of Australia’s mining industry, having done business with companies including Stanmore Coal, AngloAmerican, gold miner Newcrest, and Pilbara Minerals. It has also delivered modules to Boeing and Covalent Lithium.

In April, the company entered into its first Data Center-as-a-Service (DCaaS) agreement with an American global provider of satellite earth stations. DXN will provide small, modular data centers delivered to customer sites and leased on a recurring contract.

The company also produces landing station modules. It delivered one to Sub.co on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands for the Oman-Australia Cable, and another to Palau for the Meta/Google Echo cable. It will deliver another to Timor-Leste.

Earlier this year, the company launched a liquid-cooled module available in 1MW or 2MW designs.

The company is trying to shift away from colocation to instead focus on its modular data center business. It still operates two facilities - SDC Darwin and DXN-TAS01, located in Darwin and Tasmania respectively - but surrendered its Sydney facility in November 2023, nine years ahead of its lease.

DXN chairman Peter McGrath said in November 2023 that the two facilities currently “generate good returns” but that “the returns are not high enough for the capital invested.”

DP World, founded in 1972 as a local port operator in Dubai, operates on all continents.

Update: Shalini Lagrutta has told DCD that the company does not intend to offload its existing data centers owing to a change in business strategy.