Australia\u2019s leading data centre-as-a-service provider, today announced a $2 billion (AUD) commitment to develop M4 Melbourne \u2014 a next-generation digital campus at 127 Todd Road, Port Melbourne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
M4 will feature an AI Factory, Mission Critical Operations Centre, and Technology Centre of Excellence. Purpose-built for sovereign AI, HPC, advanced manufacturing and deep tech, the campus strengthens Australia’s competitive edge across the Five Eyes and positions Victoria as a national digital infrastructure hub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis isn\u2019t just a data centre \u2014 it\u2019s critical infrastructure for Australia\u2019s AI future,\u201d said Craig Scroggie, CEO and Managing Director NEXTDC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Located on the former Westgate Park Printing Complex, once home to the nation\u2019s largest newspaper presses, M4 marks the shift from printing stories to producing intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Built for the AI Era<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/strong>NEXTDC\u2019s Fishermans Bend campus brings together three core facilities:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Planned infrastructure highlights include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cM4 has been designed to meet the five critical imperatives for Australia\u2019s AI future \u2014 speed, scale, sovereign capability, sustainability, and security,\u201d said Scroggie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Positioning Australia in the Global AI Infrastructure Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Designed as a regional hub for hyperscale AI, defence workloads, and sovereign systems, M4 strengthens Australia\u2019s position in the global AI infrastructure race \u2014 delivering secure, sustainable, and future-ready capacity at scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCompute is the new electricity,\u201d said Scroggie. \u201cJust as electricity powered the industrial age, sovereign AI infrastructure will power the next one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Premier of Victoria The Hon. Jacinta Allan<\/strong> commented: \u201cThis investment means thousands of jobs, training for the next generation of tech workers, and cements Victoria’s reputation as the centre of innovation. We\u2019re open for business, and we\u2019re backing Victorians every step of the way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Impact: Jobs, Innovation, and Sovereign Capability<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M4 is expected to support thousands of high-value jobs across AI, digital infrastructure, defence technology and advanced research. The campus will be a national platform for secure cloud, sovereign AI, and mission-critical digital workloads \u2014 enabling Australia to grow its AI economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Hon. Danny Pearson MP<\/strong>, Victorian Minister for Economic Growth and Jobs; Minister for Finance, welcomed the announcement: \u201cThis project will create high-skilled jobs and lay the groundwork to support future developments in AI, advanced manufacturing and defence. We are working hard to attract and grow these opportunities, which are creating a thriving and globally competitive tech sector, right here in Victoria.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDigital infrastructure is economic infrastructure,\u201d said Scroggie. \u201cAI factories are a new class of\u00a0infrastructure, purpose-built for the industrial-scale production of tokens. M4 is a generational\u00a0investment in capability, resilience, and sovereign leadership \u2014 the infrastructure that will underpin\u00a0Australia\u2019s economic competitiveness in the fourth industrial revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Building the Precinct Economy of the Future<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M4 will anchor the Fishermans Bend Innovation Precinct \u2014 a nationally strategic hub for advanced \u201cPrecincts matter. They create the gravitational pull for investment, innovation, and talent,\u201d said\u00a0Scroggie. \u201cBy anchoring M4 at Fishermans Bend, we\u2019re activating a nationally integrated\u00a0ecosystem for industrial AI, defence, research, and deep tech.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNo one builds the future alone. M4 will be the convergence point for partners shaping Australia\u2019s\u00a0AI era \u2014 from NVIDIA\u2019s global leadership to our top-tier universities, to defence leaders building\u00a0sovereign capability. This is where intelligence infrastructure, collaboration, and execution meet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Hon. Harriet Shing MP<\/strong>, the Minister for Development Victoria and Precincts commented: <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis major investment by NEXTDC is another clear signal to the world that Fishermans Bend is a\u00a0key industry and market centre for growth and in-demand industries, which in turn is driving jobs\u00a0and economic growth for Victoria.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This project will create high-skilled jobs and lay the\u00a0groundwork to support future developments in AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":267865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,12785],"tags":[993,17789,8],"class_list":["post-267864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","category-data-centre","tag-melbourne","tag-nextdc","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267864"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267872,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267864\/revisions\/267872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/267865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
support NVIDIA\u2019s Blackwell and Rubin Ultra architectures, it will deliver rack densities
beyond 1,000kW \u2014 enabling model training, inference, and frontier AI workloads at scale.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
housed within Tier IV infrastructure. MCX provides secure, fault-tolerant environments for
high-stakes digital operations \u2014 from defence to enterprise and government \u2014 where
uptime and trust are non-negotiable.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
support engineers, students, and start-ups to build and operate AI systems onshore \u2014
accelerating Australia\u2019s capability in deep tech.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n
manufacturing, aerospace, sovereign defence, and deep tech. NEXTDC is proud to be working
with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
capability<\/li>\n\n\n\n
cross-sector innovation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n