Equinix Launches Its Fifth Australia Data Center in Sydney

Touts hundreds of customers on Sydney campus, access to submarine cables, peering nodes

Data Center Knowledge

August 22, 2016

1 Min Read
Equinix Launches Its Fifth Australia Data Center in Sydney
Inside Equinix’s new SY4 data center in Sydney (Photo: Equinix)

Equinix announced the launch of its latest Australia data center. The company said it has invested $97 million in the SY4 facility in Sydney, which already has 20 customers on board, including Servers Australia, one of the country’s largest dedicated hosting firms, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud provider Zettagrid.

This is Equinix’s fifth data center in Australia. The company has four facilities in Sydney, including the new one, and one in Melbourne. Equinix, the world’s largest data center provider, has close to 30 data centers in Asia Pacific and close to 150 globally.

According to Equinix, its Sydney campus hosts equipment for more than 600 companies, including 140 network providers and more than 225 cloud and IT service providers. There, companies get access to key Australian peering points and multiple submarine cable systems, such as the Australia-US Southern Cross and PIPE Pacific Cable, which runs from a coastal town close to Sydney to Guam.

The facility will also provide access to the Hawaiki cable. Amazon Web Services is one of four anchor customers of the cable – currently in early stages of construction – which will connect US (it will land both in Hawaii and on mainland), Australia, and New Zealand.

Read more: Amazon's Cloud Arm Makes Its First Big Submarine Cable Investment

The data center’s first phase has capacity for 1,500 IT cabinets. The second and final phase will double that capacity, bringing the facility’s total usable floor space to about 135,000 square feet.

 

Read more about:

Data Center Knowledge

About the Author

Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge, a sister site to ITPro Today, is a leading online source of daily news and analysis about the data center industry. Areas of coverage include power and cooling technology, processor and server architecture, networks, storage, the colocation industry, data center company stocks, cloud, the modern hyper-scale data center space, edge computing, infrastructure for machine learning, and virtual and augmented reality. Each month, hundreds of thousands of data center professionals (C-level, business, IT and facilities decision-makers) turn to DCK to help them develop data center strategies and/or design, build and manage world-class data centers. These buyers and decision-makers rely on DCK as a trusted source of breaking news and expertise on these specialized facilities.

Sign up for the ITPro Today newsletter
Stay on top of the IT universe with commentary, news analysis, how-to's, and tips delivered to your inbox daily.

You May Also Like