This article is from the Australian Property Journal archive
WESTERN Sydney is set to become home to the Asia Pacific’s largest single campus hyperscale data centre outside of China, as AirTrunk announces plans for a new facility.
AirTrunk SYD3 (SYD3) will have a 320+ megawatt capacity and will become the telecommunication provider’s third data centre in Sydney, following SYD1 also in Western Sydney and SYD2 in Sydney North.
“It’s an exciting day as we circle back to Western Sydney where it all began for AirTrunk when we launched our flagship SYD1 data centre in late 2017,” said Robin Khuda, founder and CEO of AirTrunk.
The new centre will bring AirTrunk’s Western Sydney capacity up to 450+ MW, with SYD1 and SYD3 campuses connecting. While also bringing the provider’s total capacity across its Asia Pacific region platform to over a gigawatt.
“With SYD1 nearing full capacity, SYD3’s location less than one kilometre away, will help our major technology customers scale with ease and creates synergies and efficiencies between the connected campuses,” said Khuda.
The new campus will be built across 8.3-hectares and will be entirely powered by a 132KV substation built onsite.
The facility will be built to a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.15, with the most ideal PUE being generally recognised as 1.0.
In October, AirTrunk released its first sustainability report, along with plans to reveal a net zero emissions roadmap in 2022, following the operator achieving carbon neutrality for 100% of its corporate emissions relating to direct emissions at its existing Sydney and Melbourne data centres in 2021.
SYD3 will also use around 80% less water than a traditional data centre and will be being built to and designed through all phases of delivery to minimise its carbon footprint.
Throughout both the construction and operational phase, SYD3 will generate hundreds of jobs in Western Sydney and will be a multi-billion-dollar investment into the state.
The Sydney-based hyperscale data centre operator, in September, reported having converted its existing $2.1 billion corporate loan into a sustainability linked loan, in a first of its kind deal for the Asia Pacific region.
