INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY

DATA CENTRES

Australia has emerged as a key data centre market within the Asia-Pacific region in recent years with significant opportunity for continued investment. Ensuring policymakers, stakeholders and market participants are equipped with credible market intelligence and forecasting data will be key to realising that opportunity.

The partnership brings together Data Centres Australia’ s national industry network and DC Byte’ s global data centre market intelligence, with the goal of strengthening sector and stakeholder understanding of the landscape in Australia. It reflects both organisations’ shared commitment to supporting sustainable growth and informed dialogue across the digital infrastructure sector.

The partners have revealed new data that shows Australia’ s Operational IT reaching 1.4 GW by the end of Q4 2025. This rapid growth is expected to continue, with the Australian market projected to expand at a five-year CAGR of 17 % to reach 3.1 – 3.2 GW by 2030. greater collaboration between industry participants, investors and organisations shaping the digital infrastructure ecosystem.

“ Australia has a significant opportunity to position [ itself ] as a global hub for AI infrastructure investment and sustainable data centre development,” said Belinda Dennett, Chief Executive Officer, Data Centres Australia.“ One of the challenges we keep hearing from policy makers, utilities and planners is around forecasting. Forecasting requires accurate data informed by first-hand, onthe-ground intelligence.

“ We are delighted to announce a formal partnership between Data Centres Australia and DC Byte, the world’ s leading data centre market intelligence firm, to

As data centres become more important to Australia’ s digital future, having clear visibility into the market matters. provide credible data on Australia’ s data centre landscape and growth projection.

“ We believe making this data widely available to policy-makers and stakeholders will ground commentary and policy discussion in fact, resulting in better outcomes for the industry and for Australia.”

For DC Byte, the partnership offers a meaningful platform to contribute to industry-wide conversations across a market that continues to grow in regional importance.

“ As data centres become more important to Australia’ s digital future, having clear visibility into the market matters,” said James Murphy, Managing Director APAC, DC Byte.“ We’ re pleased to partner with Data Centres Australia to provide independent market intelligence that supports more informed planning and decision-making across industry and the wider ecosystem.

“ DC Byte looks forward to further collaboration as both organisations continue to champion reliable insight and evidence-based planning within Australia’ s digital infrastructure ecosystem,” he concluded. •

Data Centres Australia will draw on DC Byte’ s market intelligence to support its engagement with members, policymakers and stakeholders. As official data centre market intelligence partner, DC Byte will also provide support to Data Centres Australia members through briefings, insight sessions and other engagements.

The alliance helps connect industry stakeholders with broader market perspectives and international context. In addition, the partnership aims to foster

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