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Oceania AI Data Center Feed

Chronological feed for Oceania using the best public timeline year available for each tracked facility.

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Chronological Entries

Microsoft — Australia AI Expansion
Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, New South Wales, Victoria, ACT, Australia
2023
Operational1.0 GW

Microsoft is executing a A$5 billion (US$3.2 billion) investment in Australia, its largest ever in the country, scheduled for completion by 2026. This project focuses on increasing the number of data center sites from 20 to 29 across Sydney

Amazon Web Services — Melbourne Australia Region (ap-southeast-4)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2023
Operational80 MW

Amazon Web Services launched its Melbourne, Australia region (ap-southeast-4) in January 2023 — the second full AWS region in Australia, complementing the original Sydney region (ap-southeast-2) that has operated since 2012. The Melbourne r

Google Cloud — New Zealand Region (Auckland)
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
2023
Operational40 MW

Google Cloud launched its New Zealand region in Auckland in 2023, providing the first major hyperscale cloud region with full data residency in New Zealand. The region enables New Zealand government agencies (which have strong data sovereig

Google — Sydney AI Data Center (Australia-Southeast1)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2017
Operational120 MW

Google Cloud's Sydney region (australia-southeast1), launched in 2017, is Google's primary Australian AI infrastructure facility and serves the Australian and New Zealand market under Australian Privacy Act requirements. The facility provid

Amazon Web Services — AP-SOUTHEAST-2 Sydney Region
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2012
Operational300 MW

Amazon Web Services AP-SOUTHEAST-2 — the Sydney region — is AWS's primary Australian cloud and AI infrastructure hub, launched in November 2012. Operating across three availability zones across facilities in the greater Sydney area, it serv

AirTrunk — MEL2 Melbourne
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Planned354 MW

AirTrunk MEL2 is a massive 354 MW hyperscale data center campus in Melbourne, Victoria. Part of AirTrunk’s broader Australian platform that exceeds 1.2 GW of capacity, MEL2 is designed to meet the extreme power and cooling requirements of g

Datagrid — 'AI Factory' (Southland)
Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand
Planned280 MW

Datagrid’s "AI Factory" in Makarewa, near Invercargill, is a landmark 280 MW hyperscale project designed specifically for high-density AI training and inference. Spanning 78,000 square meters, it will be the second-largest electricity user

Microsoft — Kemps Creek AI Campus (Sydney)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Under Construction190 MW

Microsoft’s 190 MW hyperscale campus in Kemps Creek, Western Sydney, is a central component of its A$5 billion Australian infrastructure expansion. This facility is purpose-built to handle the massive compute requirements of Azure AI and Op

NEXTDC — M4 Melbourne 'AI Factory'
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Under Construction160 MW

NEXTDC’s M4 Melbourne is a $2 billion flagship "AI Factory" under construction in Fishermans Bend, Melbourne’s premier urban renewal precinct. With planned capacity of 150-162 MW across a purpose-built hyperscale campus, M4 represents Austr

AWS — Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Operational100 MW

The AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region, officially launched in late 2025, represents a NZ$7.5 billion commitment to local digital infrastructure and marks a milestone in New Zealand’s digital sovereignty — the first time a global hypersc

Microsoft — Aotearoa (NZ North) Region
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Operational100 MW

Microsoft Aotearoa (NZ North) is Microsoft’s first hyperscale data center region in New Zealand, having opened in late 2024 and reaching full operational scale in 2026. The region provides local data residency and advanced AI capabilities v

Google — Christmas Island AI Data Node
Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island, Australia
Planned7 MW

Google is developing a specialized 7 MW AI data node on Christmas Island, an Australian external territory located approximately 2,650 km northwest of Perth in the northeastern Indian Ocean — closer to Java, Indonesia than to the Australian