Cloud service provider, Rackspace Hosting has announced it will open its new data centre in Sydney, creating an expected 50 jobs in Western Sydney over the next three years.

 

Speaking at the company's media event, NSW Deputy Premier and Minister for Trade and Investment, Andrew Stoner, said the data centre at Erskine Park met the guidelines of the NSW Office of State Revenue’s Jobs Action Plan, and the 50 data centre employees were therefore eligible for the Payroll Tax Rebate Scheme.  He said that Rackspace had received no direct financial support from the NSW Government to establish it in Sydney.

 

“This datacentre confirms NSW and Sydney as the home of the expanding digital economy,” he said.

 

Mr Stoner said that the NSW government had not signed on as a customer with Rackspace  but was “certainly ... able to do that” when their IT systems had been updated to a Cloud model.

 

Rackspace Hosting  has eight other data centres around the world.