Melbourne’s booming western suburbs are at the center of a high-stakes planning bottleneck, with nine major data centre projects awaiting ministerial approval before caretaker mode freezes government decisions.
Muddying the waters are conflicts and varying reports about how much indicative demand there was, while few investor updates were sent when demand fell away.
Two years after our first interview with Eyal Trichter, CEO of Trilogical Technologies, we met again at InnoTrans 2026. Back then, much of the discussion was about connecting rolling stock, collecting data and Trilogical’s concept of a “virtual” digita…
Scheduled payments of $US550 million ($780 million) are due this year for a single data centre development, alongside other requirements to handover shares in the company if it does not go public by the end of next month.
Developer Energy North has scrapped a June 2028 start date for its 1 GW outback data centre in Australia’s Northern Territory after the local environment regulator suspended its assessment deadline to consult Canberra. No new timeframe was given.
Australia’s data centre expansion is creating a new class of electricity demand, putting pressure on generation, networks and planning frameworks as the digital economy grows.
