AUSTRALIA proprietary . It gives the team in the US head office global visibility of the whole portfolio around the world .

“ That works off the same model database as the BMS system which is a Schneider Struxuware Building Operation ( SBO ), Power Monitoring Expert ( PME ) unit . This means we can log in and find the utilisation of all our properties around the world in different locations , giving us the information to manage and fine tune operation and performance .”

The significant investment into SYD 11 and the Asia Pacific construction plan over the last 18 months stemmed from the Digital Osaka 1 Data Centre in Japan – its first facility in the country , which provides 7.6MW of IT capacity .

A thriving financial and colocation centre , Osaka is the Silicon Valley of Japan . A gateway for international exchanges , it houses a population of more than 20mn people and has a GDP of approximately 80trn yen .

“ The Digital Osaka 1 Data Centre was the big one that really got the attention of the guys back in the US ,” adds Adcock . “ That was 95 % sold before it was opened . It started out as an easy stepping stone for a lot of the American companies , working with an S & P 500 company they know , and provided a product they ’ re familiar with because it ’ s consistent around the world , barring any legislative or code differences .”

Osaka is a melting pot of many industrial fields , a broad crosssection of businesses , universities and tech development . Two cloud social media companies immediately snapped up the space , and in May , Digital Realty announced it is building Digital Osaka 2 ¬ Data Centre – which is four times the size of Osaka 1 – alongside it .

It ’ s in the final stages of design and will launch next year . The two Osaka centres will create a Connected Data Centre Campus , which SYD 10 and

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