Ford’s famous Broadmeadows manufacturing site in Melbourne will become the location of a new data centre almost a decade after the automaker ended more than 90 years of producing cars in Australia.
According to The Urban Developer, the site at 300-340 Barry Road in Campbellfield will be developed by Singapore-based Zerra DC.
A planning permit lodged by Zerra with the Victorian state government proposes a six-building data centre campus on the historic site, including office space.
The proposed campus is slated to comprise six buildings. Zerra DC, an investment firm AGP-owned company previously known as AGP DC, has a portfolio of data centre developments planned across India, Japan, and Australia, with a total secured capacity of 920MW in these regions and the US.
The Zerra DC development is expected to exceed over 500MW of power for the series of developments.
Having built cars in Geelong since 1925, Ford Australia opened the Broadmeadows plant in August 1959, before it introduced the first locally made Ford Falcon, codenamed XK, to showrooms the following year.
