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Australia AI Data Center Feed

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

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Feed items are ordered by the strongest public timeline year available for each tracked facility. Use the HTML page for scanning and the XML endpoint for readers, alerting, or downstream tooling.

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 — 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

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

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