Intelligent Data Centres Issue 30 | Page 26

PROJECT FOCUS
1 . AUSTRALIA
NEXTDC has announced a new data centre site in western Sydney . S4 Sydney is a significant longterm expansion opportunity that will provide data centre services to hyperscale cloud providers in a new Availability Zone within the Sydney market not currently serviced by NEXTDC ’ s existing data centres ( S1 , S2 and S3 , which is under development ). S4 will also play a critical role in enabling enterprise and government customers to scale their critical infrastructure platforms in this important digital gateway region .

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2 . JAPAN
Colt Data Centre Services ( DCS ), a leading provider of global hyperscale data centre solutions , has announced that Fidelity has entered into a joint venture agreement with Mitsui & Co , and Mitsui & Co Asset Management Holdings , to provide state-of-the-art hyperscale data centres in Japan . The new joint venture will be owned 50:50 and will further strengthen Colt DCS ’ presence in the Tokyo and Osaka regions of Japan .
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