By Mike Fisher*
The security implications of huge data centres as an integral component of national infrastructure have moved to centre stage with the wave of investment announcements arriving on our shores.
Among the latest news was the announcement CDC Data Centres signed the biggest data centre deal in Australian history, a 555 MW contract equivalent to 40 per cent of all existing data centre capacity in the nation. The new capacity, to be delivered from 2028, will form part of CDC’s projected capacity pipelines exceeding 2.6 GW.
Landmark announcements such as this – and the recent news that NSW is positioning itself to become a world-leading data centre – are driven by the boom in Australia’s Artificial Intelligence sector, driven by demand from local and international companies for secure, high-density AI infrastructure.
Understandably, the expanded needs have caught the attention of the entire development community involved in planning, construction, and management of such facilities. This community extends from architects and designers, systems engineers, builders and developers, facility managers…
