Macquarie Telecom plans new $60m data centre

Stuart Corner
Monday, 25 October 2010 09:50

IT Industry - Strategy

Macquarie Telecom has shelled out $10.8m on land and building in North Ryde saying it will spend a further $49m to build a new data centre.

The company says it has exchanged contracts to purchase two hectares (21,000 square metres) of land and an existing building in North Ryde for $10.8 million, to accommodate a new data centre , and that the floor to space ratio will enable it to build plant and raised floor of this area.

It will spend $30 million over the next 12 months, as a result changing its prior capex guidance of $15 million for fiscal 2011. The new data centre, to be named Intellicentre 2, is scheduled to be completed in late 2011.

Macquarie said the site had been chosen "due to the diversity of telecommunications supply and power infrastructure crucial to the development of a state-of-the-art, multi redundant data centre facility," and that the North Ryde business precinct "also offers proximity to Macquarie Telecom's current and future customer base and compliments its existing Sydney CBD data centre."

Macquarie Telecom's managing director, hosting, Aidan Tudehope, said: "Our Sydney CBD data centre remains the most highly accredited data centre in Australia and this same focus on operational excellence will be applied to our new North Ryde data centre. This new facility will support both our corporate and government customers' future needs. It will be accredited to ASIO T4, Defence Signals Directorate standards, Payment Card Industry (PCI DSS) standard and ISO27001."