CONSTRUCTION
It opened to much fanfare on the 15th November and is a 16.8MW two-storey , six-data hall facility data centre with office space . MV Power Generation ( 11kV ) is installed within the SYD11 facility , capable of efficient and fast demand response and to date , the capital investment for the facility is around $ 100 million , with another $ 50-100 million to go .
“ We ’ re just finishing at the moment , putting the final polish on ,” says Daniel Howard , Digital Realty ’ s Director of Construction APAC . “ It ’ s a two-story data centre and we are using the lightest technology in lithium battery UPSs , which has given us a much more streamlined footprint , so we can fit more power into a small space in comparison to our previous generation data centres , such as the SYD10 Erskine Park I facility .
“ We ’ ve got MV Power Generation so we ’ ve got the ability to come off grid quite simply now and can support the whole site with generation . This allows us to match the generation capacity to the load experienced at the time , whereas , with the traditional or low-voltage generation system you can ’ t really
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