Melbourne’s live data centre capacity grew 37% in 2025, according to CBRE‘s 2026 Asia Pacific Data Centre Trends & Outlook Report, making it the fastest-growing major data centre market in Australia.
That growth reflects increasing demand across Victoria for AI-ready, cloud and mission-critical digital infrastructure hosting services, alongside the strategic connectivity advantages that position Melbourne as a significant digital hub.
NEXTDC’s Melbourne campus spans M1 Melbourne, M2 Melbourne and M3 Melbourne, providing Uptime Institute certified infrastructure built for the future scale, rich ecosystem interconnection and operational certainty organisations need to deploy, innovate and grow with confidence.
The campus continues to expand, with M4 Melbourne having received development approval and further stages of development progressing at both M2 Melbourne and M3 Melbourne.
For organisations deploying AI, cloud and mission-critical workloads in Victoria, this is an ecosystem built for scale, certainty and long-term growth.
The Age has also found a newly registered company covering a new M5 development located from reports in Geelong at Lovely Banks. Victoria is set to control the AI space and be the data centre capital of Australia and a key data centre city in the Asia Pacific Region.
