SYDNEY, Nov. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Realty
(NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data centre, colocation
and interconnection solutions, announced today its continued growth
and investment in Australia with
the grand opening of Digital Erskine Park II. Digital Realty
also announced the acquisition of an additional 1.4-hectare land
parcel in Erskine Park. The site will be home to Digital
Erskine Park III, a new data centre facility that will add 12
megawatts of capacity to the Digital Realty Erskine Park Connected
Campus upon completion. Together, the two new facilities will
expand Digital Realty's Australian data centre footprint to six
facilities, bringing the company's total investment in Australia to over AUD $1 billion.
Digital Realty's Newest Sydney Data Centre
Member for
Mulgoa Tanya Davies MP congratulated Digital Realty on the grand
opening. "The opening of this state-of-the-art facility is a
huge win for the people of western Sydney. With more professional jobs
coming into our region, there are more opportunities for people to
live, work and invest in western Sydney, now and into the future," said Davies.
"The New South Wales
government is committed to growing opportunities for people not
only to live, but also to work in western Sydney. We will continue to work hard to
ensure people throughout western Sydney have access to fulfilling careers right
here at home."
The grand opening was attended by Councillor Greg Davies, the
Deputy Mayor of Penrith, and Mr. Graham
Davis-King, member and director of the Deerubbin Local
Aboriginal Land Council. Penrith Mayor Ross Fowler also congratulated Digital Realty on
the opening of the new facility. "We applaud Digital Realty's
investment in Penrith, through both the data centre opened today
and the company's plans to build an additional facility in Erskine
Park," said Cr Fowler.
"Council is committed to supporting e-commerce and creating a
city that is connected in every way. This includes access to
fast and efficient technology infrastructure."
The next generation, cloud-enabled and environmentally friendly
facility encompasses 7,000 square metres and will provide up to
17.4 megawatts of critical IT power capacity to numerous Australian
and international customers.
Digital Realty Chief Executive Officer A. William Stein stated, "Sydney's status as a global hotspot for
innovation, and a key city for multinationals as they touch down
into the Asia Pacific region,
makes it a critically important destination for us. This
facility will serve the community well as a strong addition to
Sydney's data and technology
infrastructure, which is increasingly under-resourced due to the
rapid growth of inbound business and the regional digital
economy."
Digital Erskine Park II Additional Features
- The newly opened facility was built utilising Digital Realty's
latest state-of-the-art, trademarked 4.0 POD
Architecture® performance-optimised data centre design.
The POD Architecture uses a modular methodology to build out
raised floor data centre capacity using standard power and cooling
building blocks for cost-effectiveness, design flexibility and
energy efficiency. This unique trademarked system leverages
Digital Realty's deep expertise and extensive experience designing
and building data centres around the globe.
- The facility will employ a state-of-the-art cooling solution
that includes a pumped refrigerate economiser cycle, ensuring
excellent annualised Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) without water
usage, a key factor in ensuring a low impact on the environment.
The data centre also features lithium ion battery technology,
which provides better performance than traditional lead acid
batteries.
- The new facility will be connected via dark fibre to the
existing facilities on the Digital Realty Erskine Park connected
campus, bringing together critical data centre, network, cloud and
connectivity providers under a single, secure environment for
Australian and international customers. The new facility will
have the ability to connect directly to PIPE-IX, the second-largest
Internet Exchange in Australia,
housed within the Digital Realty Erskine Park connected
campus.
"Our new facility will empower our customers to successfully
tackle their unique digital transformation objectives with agile
data centre solutions built for growth and harnessing the power of
proximity needed for latency-sensitive applications," said
Peter Adcock, Vice President of
Design & Construction for Asia
Pacific at Digital Realty. "Sydney is ideally placed on the Eastern
Seaboard, with the fibre optic backbone that runs up through
Brisbane and Queensland, and down to Canberra and Melbourne. It picks up a large part of
the Australian population and is strategically located along
submarine fibre cable routes."
Digital Realty's Continued Expansion: Digital Erskine
Park III
Given the significant demand for the company's
recently completed data centres in Sydney, Digital Realty has acquired an
additional land parcel to support the next phase of the Erskine
Park connected campus. The new site was strategically
selected to provide easy network and operations access from the
company's existing Erskine Park facilities. Design and
planning work for the new 12-megawatt facility is expected to begin
shortly, with incremental capacity scheduled to be delivered by
2020, subject to planning approval and customer demand.
Digital Realty will employ up to 500 local contractors during
construction of the new facility, providing another boost to the
Western Sydney economy. Once
fully operational, the data centre will provide up to 30 additional
permanent roles, including facilities managers, engineers, security
personnel and additional contractors.
"We are excited to further expand our presence in Sydney, a key market for us in Australia and the wider Asia Pacific region," said Krupal Raval, Chief Financial Officer for
Asia Pacific at Digital Realty.
"The time is right for this expansion. Given the
fantastic market demand we have seen for our newest facility that
just opened, we have already started the design and planning
process for the next phase of our Erskine Park connected
campus. We expect to break ground soon, with the goal of
delivering our next data centre for customers requiring critical IT
space in Sydney by
2020."
Structure Research's recent Australian data centre research
report suggests that massive-scale cloud providers are driving
demand in the Sydney and
Melbourne data centre markets
since local requirements are best served in-country and Australian
enterprises tend to be more outsource-friendly than elsewhere in
the Asia-Pacific region.
Digital Realty offers a full range of global data centre,
colocation and interconnection solutions, and currently owns and
operates 198 facilities across 32 global metropolitan areas.
In the Asia Pacific region,
Digital Realty operates a network of 12 data centres located in
Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Osaka,
Melbourne and Sydney.
About Digital Realty
Digital Realty supports the data
centre, colocation and interconnection strategies of more than
2,300 firms across its secure, network-rich portfolio of data
centres located throughout North
America, Europe,
Asia and Australia. Digital
Realty's clients include domestic and international companies of
all sizes, ranging from cloud and information technology services,
communications and social networking to financial services,
manufacturing, energy, healthcare and consumer products. For
more information visit www.digitalrealty.asia also follow us on
Twitter at @digitalapac and read our APAC blogs
at https://www.digitalrealty.asia/insights.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains
forward-looking statements which are based on current expectations,
forecasts and assumptions that involve risks and uncertainties that
could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially,
including statements related to our Digital Erskine Park II data
centre opening and Sydney land
acquisition. These risks and uncertainties include, among
others, the following: reduced demand for data centres or decreases
in information technology spending; decreased rental rates,
increased operating costs or increased vacancy rates; increased
competition or available supply of data centre space; the
suitability of our data centres and data centre infrastructure,
delays or disruptions in connectivity or availability of power, or
failures or breaches of our physical and information security
infrastructure or services; our dependence upon significant
customers, bankruptcy or insolvency of a major customer or a
significant number of smaller customers, or defaults on or
non-renewal of leases by customers; breaches of our obligations or
restrictions under our contracts with our customers; our inability
to successfully develop and lease new properties and development
space, and delays or unexpected costs in development of properties;
the impact of current global and local economic, credit and market
conditions; our inability to retain data centre space that we lease
or sublease from third parties; difficulty acquiring or operating
properties in foreign jurisdictions; our failure to realize the
intended benefits from, or disruptions to our plans and operations
or unknown or contingent liabilities related to, our recent
acquisitions; our failure to successfully integrate and operate
acquired or developed properties or businesses; difficulties in
identifying properties to acquire and completing acquisitions;
risks related to joint venture investments, including as a result
of our lack of control of such investments; risks associated with
using debt to fund our business activities, including re-financing
and interest rate risks, our failure to repay debt when due,
adverse changes in our credit ratings or our breach of covenants or
other terms contained in our loan facilities and agreements; our
failure to obtain necessary debt and equity financing, and our
dependence on external sources of capital; financial market
fluctuations and changes in foreign currency exchange rates;
adverse economic or real estate developments in our industry or the
industry sectors that we sell to, including risks relating to
decreasing real estate valuations and impairment charges and
goodwill and other intangible asset impairment charges; our
inability to manage our growth effectively; losses in excess of our
insurance coverage; environmental liabilities and risks related to
natural disasters; our inability to comply with rules and
regulations applicable to our company; our failure to maintain our
status as a REIT for federal income tax purposes; our operating
partnership's failure to qualify as a partnership for federal
income tax purposes; restrictions on our ability to engage in
certain business activities; and changes in local, state, federal
and international laws and regulations, including related to
taxation, real estate and zoning laws, and increases in real
property tax rates. For a further list and description of
such risks and uncertainties, see the reports and other filings by
the company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,
including the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year
ended December 31, 2017 and Quarterly
Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2018, June 30,
2018 and September 30, 2018.
The company disclaims any intention or obligation to update
or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of
new information, future events or otherwise.
For Additional Information:
Omer Wilson
Senior Director, Marketing
Asia Pacific
Digital Realty
owilson@digitalrealty.com
+65 6505 3951
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