An on-site power failure at a Vantage Data Centers campus in Sterling, Virginia, led its backup diesel generators to run for nearly a full day during a Code Red air-quality alert.
Twenty-two-metre high power poles and a constant, eerie humming noise have been a bugbear for Footscray residents and those in surrounding areas, leading to protests and outcry from locals.
GreenSquare DC has officially brought 15 megawatts of capacity online for the inaugural stage of its SYD1 data centre in Western Sydney, fully leased to Nasdaq-listed neocloud Sharon AI.
Neither Jemena nor NextDC has formally confirmed that the power pole pause directly caused the supply bottleneck. However, Citigroup analyst Siraj Ahmed confirmed in a client briefing that the trading halt is heavily linked to Jemena’s suspension of the infrastructure project.
The AI boom’s binding constraint is shifting from chips to permits, power and credit, and investors are beginning to price the gap between announced data centre capacity and what can realistically be financed and built.
Australia must aggressively court international technology giants seeking to construct multi-billion-dollar data centres, according to Climate Change Authority chair Matt Kean, who warns that excessive regulatory hurdles risk driving vital investment overseas.
Data centres in Ukraine, Russia and the Middle East have become crucial targets in conflict that can temporarily bring down a country’s economy and public facilities such as banks and hospitals.
The filing discloses that the trading halt was sought specifically because NextDC needs to provide a material update to the market on the impact of a delay to the supply of power at its M3 Melbourne data centre.
Power supplies to NextDC’s controversial M3 data centre expansion in Melbourne had been delayed, the developer said on Monday, as trading in its shares was halted pending an update on the potential hit to its balance sheet.
