Sydney’s data centre crown is safe if the latest plans for major data centres in the state capital are anything to go by.
Stockland is pumping up its data capabilities next to its Macquarie Park high-tech hub at 1-5 Khartoum Road.
Its plans for the MPark Talavera Road data centre are expected to cost $718 million, and are on exhibition via the State Significant Development pathway.
The City of Ryde proposals by Urbis have been designed by data centre specialists Greenbox Architects, and seek to deliver a “state-of-the-art” data centre on a 10,015sq m site owned by Johnson & Johnson.
Stockland’s application said that it was “expected to contribute significantly to technological infrastructure and regional economic growth” and sits between two existing data centres.
The six-storey development will have a gross floor area of 19,434sq m with office space and three storeys of technical data floor space consisting of 12 data houses.
It will also house 28 diesel generators and storage tanks, and has a 76.4mW capacity.
Further south-west at the Camden council area, Greenbox has also designed a project for Amazon at 43-61 Turner Road in Gregory Hills.
Work has begun on site for the two-storey data centre, which will house 27 backup diesel generators and has a 53mW capacity with 12 data halls.
According to the latest report from Cushman & Wakefield, Sydney has considerable data centre clout, with operation capacity of 1.3gW, coming in third in the Asia-Pacific region after mainland China (4.5gW) and Japan (1.5gW).
Goodman is plotting a $1.4-billion data centre conversion for ABC’s former studios on Sydney’s North Shore, whilst AirTrunk lodged plans the previous year for a data centre in western Sydney that will be one of Asia-Pacific’s largest.
