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MACQUARIE DATA CENTRES RECEIVES GREEN LIGHT ON AI-READY SYDNEY DATA CENTRE
Macquarie Technology Group has announced its wholly owned subsidiary , Macquarie Data Centres ( 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 ).
Selected early works are presently being undertaken on the site . Commencement of the construction of Stage 1 remains subject to Board approval .
IC3 Super West will bring the total campus IT load of the company ’ s flagship campus in Sydney ’ s North Zone up to a potential 63MW . The facility will be able to accommodate the power and cooling demands of cloud and AI technology which have increasingly higher-density workloads .
IT will optimise both air and liquid cooling and is being built with increased floor loading and advanced monitoring systems to support next-generation infrastructure .
David Hirst , Group Executive , MCD , said : “ IC3 Super West is designed to be ultra-flexible and easily scalable to meet the future needs of hyperscale , cloud , AI and government customers . The data centre will cater for a range of highdensity requirements to accommodate the new wave of GPU and CPU technology .”
The data centre will be Certified Strategic by the Australian Federal Government and will be considered part of Australia ’ s critical infrastructure , making it a secure and future-proofed choice for customers who want to do business in Australia .
MCD is home to two of three the worlds ’ biggest hyperscalers , large multinational enterprises and 42 % of the Australian Federal Government .
NL-ix can now offer dedicated enterprise business IX services by providing five-nines network uptime , any port at any speed up to 800GE , while consuming less energy and real estate .
Already among the top global IX ’ s , NL-ix had previously deployed the Nokia800GE systems in its Amsterdam data centres , where daily average traffic regularly peaked above 8 Tb / s in 2023 . To accommodate traffic peaks across the entire network , NL-ix will deploy a range of Nokia ’ s SR family of IP routers , including largescale FP5-based multi-slot systems for core routing , to smaller IP routers built for edge and satellite-based applications .
Nokia has announced the further expansion of its relationship with NL-ix , one of Europe ’ s largest distributed Internet Exchange Providers ( IXP ), extending the rollout of 7750 Service Routers ( SR ) with speeds of up to 800GE interfaces from the Netherlands to the more than 100 data centres NL-ix operates continent wide .
NL-IX DEPLOYS NOKIA IP ROUTING TO TRANSFORM INTO EUROPEAN- WIDE DISTRIBUTED BUSINESS INTERNET EXCHANGE
Now , with the deployment of Nokia ’ s 800GE systems Europe-wide , NL-ix is supercharging its network , transforming from a localised IX into a European business connectivity platform capable of providing carriergrade resiliency that supports five-nines availability of its network services .
With breadth , resiliency , speed and sustainability , NL-ix is uniquely positioned to attract new customers in sectors such as banking , insurance and healthcare who have traditionally relied on exclusive private networks to achieve these same levels of security , reliability and deterministic service for much of their business transactions .
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