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As we celebrate International Data Centre Day 2025 this month, every day we are reminded of the imperceptible, yet indispensable role data centres play in powering innovations that define our modern lives, both in business and as consumers.

GUEST OPINION:  While it may feel as if the nation is only discussing such big-ticket items as social media bans, interest rates and a forthcoming election, Australian industry instead is focusing on three mega-trends that are re-shaping their business models on the fly.

Compact floor-mounted fiber frame solution simplifies and accelerates management in high-density data centres

Customer platform for scaling businesses provider HubSpot has launched its first Australian data centre.

Digital infrastructure company Equinix, Inc. and the Centre for Energy Research & Technology (CERT) under the National University of Singapore’s College of Design and Engineering (NUS CDE) have announced its plan to set up a Co-Innovation Facility (CIF) in Singapore to “accelerate the testing and development of innovative solutions focused on low-carbon energy, high-efficiency cooling, circularity, and energy efficiency optimisation for data centres”.

Data centre provider NextDC has officially opened A1 – Adelaide’s first Tier IV certified data centre, providing the critical infrastructure needed to support and accelerate the digital transformation of government and business sectors operating in South Australia (SA).

Malaysian integrated telco and digital technology group TM is partnering Nxera, the regional data centre arm of Singtel’s Digital InfraCo unit, in a joint venture to develop data centres in Malaysia.

Australian-listed Macquarie Technology Group (ASX: MAQ) has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Macquarie Data Centres Pty Ltd (MDC), has received confirmation from the Independent Planning Commission NSW that it has favourably determined MDC’s state significant development application for the construction of a third data centre at the Macquarie Park Data Centre Campus (IC3 SuperWest).

GUEST OPINION: At Intel Innovation in September, we announced that Stability AI – the company behind the Stable Diffusion text-to-image model – would be one of the largest customers for an AI supercomputer built entirely on Intel technology, Intel Gaudi2 AI hardware accelerators and Intel Xeon processors.

GUEST OPINION:  With the pace of technological change showing no sign of slowing, business leaders are focused on the impact it will have during 2024.

Asian communications technology group Singtel, through its data centre subsidiaries DCW and DCKC, has secured a S$535 million five-year green loan.

Microsoft will spend $5 billion in Australia over the next two years, expanding its data centres from 20 to 29 and also setting up a datacentre academy along with TAFE NSW.

Asian communications technology group Singtel and global investment firm KKR have reached a definitive agreement under which a fund managed by KKR will commit up to S$1.1 billion (US$800 million) for a 20% stake in Singtel’s regional data centre business.

A report prepared by the University of Technology Sydney has found that sustainability professionals are not receiving the data they need concerning data centre operations.

COMPANY NEWS: Hitachi Vantara, the modern infrastructure, data management and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi, today announced two new global partnership agreements with Cisco. The agreements bring Hitachi Vantara into Cisco’s service provider and solution technology integrator (STI) partner programs, respectively, enabling Hitachi Vantara to seamlessly integrate Cisco technologies with its storage products and position the company as a leading data centre infrastructure and hybrid cloud managed services provider.

Australian businesses are behind their international peers when it comes to data infrastructure sustainability, according to a new report from Hitachi Vantara.

GUEST INTERVIEW: A hybrid cloud strategy is now the norm among larger organisations, and that that can lead to performance and security problems – but Gigamon can help.

Semiconductor firm Nvidia has bounced back in the second quarter, which ended on 30 April, announcing a 19% rise in quarterly revenue to US$7.19 billion (A$10.98 billion).

Analyst firm Gartner has identified four key trends for cloud, data centre and edge infrastructure in 2023.

GUEST RESEARCH: A10 Networks today published research, titled Global communication service providers: Market growth fuels security investments, exploring how communication service providers (CSPs) worldwide are evolving as they expand services and infrastructure in response to changing customer demand and technology evolution.