Eastern Creek. $200 million centre opened

Hewlett-Packard has opened its $200 million Aurora Data Centre at Eastern Creek. The first phase of the facility offers 2500 square metres of technical floorspace to major clients that include Origin Energy, Downer and Elders Australia. The company also unveiled its future plans to build up to 12,500 square metres of floorspace at the high-security site to offer government and private sector greater cloud and managed services.

Siklverwater. Data centres to boost economy

Data centres will be built in Silverwater, in Western Sydney and Unanderra, in the the Illawarra to consolidate the NSW government data storage. The Minister for Finance and Services, Greg Pearce, said the centres would provide a much needed boost to the Western Sydney and Illawarra economies. The centres expect to be operational by the end of 2013.

Macquarie Park. $107 million investment

Deputy Premier, Andrew Stoner, has officially opened the new global service centre of specialist ICT services and solutions provider, Dimension Data Australia, at Macquarie Park. The global service centre currently employs 130 people but the company expects it will grow to employ over 300 people over the next five years. Dimension Data's facility has been built to provide 24-hour, seven day a week technical support for companies spanning a range of sectors, including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, manufacturing, government and education. NSW Trade & Investment worked with Dimension Data to help secure the $107 million investment for Sydney.

North Ryde. Data centre to open in 2012

Macquarie Telecom has announced that construction is progressing well on its new world-class data centre at North Ryde, a $60 million investment that will create up to 100 jobs over five years. The new data centre, called Intellicentre 2, is scheduled to open in early 2012. The investment was secured for NSW with support from NSW Trade and Investment. The data centre will create 50 jobs in its first year rising to almost 100 jobs within five years. Macquarie Telecom already operates a data centre in Sydney's CBD but is establishing this second centre at North Ryde to cater for continued growth in data hosting and managed enterprise cloud computing services.

Eastern Creek. $119 million data centre

Computer giant, Hewlett-Packard expects its data centre, built at a cost of $119 million Eastern Creek, to be operational before the end of the year. The building work does not include the cost of technology infrastructure. HP will initially open 2320 square metres, with the site able to hold a further four blocks of the same size. The centre is expected to be in operation for between 30 years 50 years, according to The Australian Financial Review.

Eastern Creek. $119m data centre proposed

Hewlett-Packard Australia is set to invest $119 million in the M7 business hub, at Eastern Creek. The company proposes to build a data centre complex on a 13.4-hectare site with the potential for a second centre at the same location in future. The company’s submission to the Department of Planning estimated construction work would take about 12 months to complete.

North Ryde. $50 million data centre

Macquarie Telecom has bought two hectares in North Ryde for $10.8 million to build a new data centre facility. The centre, Intelligence 2 is expected to cost close to $50 million to be completed in late 2011 The floor space ratio of the site allows for the potential to build plant and raised floor of 215,000 square feet Phase one of the project will see $49 million invested into mechanical, electrical, plant and equipment needs. $30 million of this investment will be made over the next 12 months. The company said the North Ryde business precinct offers proximity to Macquarie Telecom’s current and future customer base and complements its existing Sydney CBD data centre.

Eastern Creek, DA for data centre

Hewlett Packard (Data) has a DA on public exhibition with the Department of Planning for the fit out and operation of a data storage and distribution centre, at Eastern Creek. The estimated capital investment is $119 million. Construction jobs total 200 workers, and five when operationa.

Eastern Creek. Property sold for data centre

Investa Property Group has sold a 3.5-hectare parcel of industrial land, at the Turn 4 Industrial Estate, at Eastern Creek, for about $12 million, to Woolworths. It is expected to be used as a data centre, which is expected to be used as a $43 million data centre housing computer systems and associated components to store data across all of its businesses. Construction jobs would total 200 and 30 when operational.