Data solutions specialist Digital Reality has announced its plans to invest in and develop two new data centres in Melbourne, bringing an estimated economic benefit of around $365 million to the state.

 

Officiating at the announcement at the company's Deer Park site, State Minister for Technology Gordon Rich-Phillips said Digital Realty would invest $150 million in the project which is expected to create more than 450 indirect jobs when fully operational.

 

"Digital Realty's investment helps to establish the presence of another strong international technology brand in Melbourne, at a time where the shift to cloud computing is driving the development of more and more large scale data centres.

 

"These Victorian facilities will be the first fully pre-leased facilities built by Digital Realty in Australia and will position the company to support Victorian, Australian and Asia-Pacific customers.

 

Digital Realty focuses on delivering customer-driven data centre solutions by providing secure, reliable and cost-effective facilities that meet each customer's unique needs.

 

Digital Realty's customers include many Fortune 500 and high-profile multinational corporations across multiple industries, including ICT, cloud service providers, manufacturing and financial services.

 

Each Digital Realty facility is physically secure and features state-of-the-art power and cooling architecture that has been optimised for green operation. Each facility has a centralised software system which monitors and manages the data centre power consumption, energy efficiency and load analysis.

 

Digital Realty's Regional Head, Asia Pacific, Mr Kris Kumar, said the Victorian data centre project is expected to have a significant positive economic impact on the Western Melbourne region, estimated at around $365 million.

 

"We believe this project will serve as an economic engine for Victoria by providing critical computing infrastructure for companies bringing additional investment and jobs to the region," Mr Kumar said.

 

"Australia is one of the world's most dynamic data centre markets, and we are proud to be making this major investment in Victoria and expanding our rapidly-growing presence in Australia."