Welcome aboard Digital Realty's Erskine Park data centre, home of Rackspace's first cloud cluster.
The 8020 square metre facility comprises four 1440 kW Turn-Key FlexSM Performance Optimised data centres (PODs).
The foyer.
NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell welcomes the latest addition to the State's digital infrastructure.
Digital Realty's Asia Pacific head Kris Kumar said the facility brought the operator's total data centre footprint in Sydney to 15,500 square metres. He estimated around 250 jobs were created by the investment.
Access en route to data halls. The facility was built in just 11 months to the same specs as Digital Realty facilities overseas.
The press were shown one of four data halls, ready to take equipment.
PDUs and under-floor cooling.
There are eight plant rooms - two per data hall.
The ceremonial tree-planting.
Gen-sets line the roof.
Digital Realty snapped up the 3.48-hectare plot of land at Erskine Park in mid-2011 for $10.7 million. The facility is a key part of the data centre operator's Australian growth strategy.
Welcome aboard Digital Realty's Erskine Park data centre, home of Rackspace's first cloud cluster.