Macquarie Telecom has announced that construction under way on its new $60 million data centre at North Ryde. The new data centre, called Intellicentre 2, is scheduled to open in early 2012.

 

The data centre will create 50 jobs in its first year rising to almost 100 jobs within five years. It will support the data management needs of firms across a range of organisations needing high-availability and scalable hosting resources, such as financial institutions, local, State and Federal Government, digital media, utilities and software companies. 

 

Macquarie Telecom says the North Ryde data centre will involve a company investment of over $60 million in land, mechanical, electrical, plant and equipment. The investment was secured with support from NSW Trade and Investment.

 

Macquarie Telecom already operates a data centre in Sydney's CBD but is establishing this second centre at North Ryde to cater for continued growth in data hosting and managed enterprise cloud computing services.

 

The facility, being built over a two hectare site, will be accredited to global security standards to support the data management needs of both corporate and government customers. It will have capacity to service 1,000+ racks in stage 1 of the build-out.

 

North Ryde was chosen as the location for the data centre given its access to telecommunications and power infrastructure, proximity to Macquarie Telecom's corporate and government customers, in addition to alleviating any security, compliance, data residency and latency concerns customers have about cloud  services.