NextDC gets green light for Sydney data centre

Business Technology Leadership (Nov 14 2011) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

1. Data centre operator NextDC (ASX:NXT) has been given the go-ahead to kick off construction on its latest data centre in Sydney, S1, which was initially announced back in March. The company has received formal development approval from the City of Ryde Council for the construction of the facility at Macquarie Park on a site of 10,000 square metres, which is scheduled to go live in December 2012. NextDC chief financial officer, Robin Khuda, told Computerworld Australia that the build of S1 will be headed up by FDC Construction and Fitout which will now begin preliminary work, while engineering design firm, Arup will design the facility. The facility, located next to Fujitsu’s Sydney data centre, will provide about 5000 square metres of data halls with a 10 megawatt IT load. The site will be powered by Ausgrid and have fibre connectivity from numerous fibre operators including Telstra, Optus ... (Read Full Article)

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