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“ It ’ s good to be in a position where as soon as we ’ re finishing one building , we ’ re thinking and acquiring land for the next ,” adds Howard . “ The key thing about Erskine Park is that there are probably three hubs in Sydney at the moment .

“ You ’ ve got one hub in and around the airport where a lot of the sub-sea cables are landing , which have the connections to the rest of the globe up to Singapore and Guam and over to the US and New Zealand .

“ The next hub is probably the Macquarie Park area , and then , the last hub is out in the Erskine Park Eastern Creek area . The major attraction to that area is the ability to do large scale because of the power availability in that area .”

There are multiple data centres within the area , so it ’ s carrier-rich , with lots of communications cabling around the area , and the Western Sydney Bulk Supply Point Substation – a 1500 MVA transmission station – is connected directly to the power station .

Next on the construction agenda for Digital Realty is doubling the APAC footprint , with the new space in Sydney , land in Melbourne and acquiring more space in Singapore , Osaka and Tokyo .

“ We ’ re looking for sites that are around two to four times the size of our existing sites ,” he adds . “ We ’ re now looking at six to 10-hectare sites ; that ’ s just an indication of which way we ’ re going .”

“ In Osaka , we ’ re working on developing the next 70 megawatts of IT load for our clients and the market . We ’ re also undergoing a process of procuring renewable energy and that ’ s where the data centres have the biggest impact

JUNE 2019