NextDC is considering building its second data centres in Brisbane and Melbourne, following customer demand.
The publicly listed company will look to raise approximately $70 million for a new B2 Brisbane data centre if market conditions stabilise. The new Melbourne M2 centre will be considered in 2016.
The existing Brisbane data centre is currently at 79 percent capacity, while the Melbourne facility is at 76 percent.
NextDC has already invested $221 million fitting out its five data centres, bringing capacity to 21.7 megawatts.
So far, the company has spent $85 million on its Melbourne M1 centre, $66 million on Sydney S1, $34 million on Perth P1, $28 million on Brisbane's B1 and $7 million on Canberra C1.
The announcement was outlined during NextDC’s 2015 annual results presentation.
The company reported its first positive annual earnings with $8 million, up from last years’ loss of $16.1 million.
Data centre revenue shot up by 93 percent to $58.7 million, a growth of $28.3 million. It was the first year that NextDC’s five data centres were all fully operational.
The company cited new contract wins for the strong results.NextDC announced earlier this year ExpressRoute connection capabilities with Microsoft’s public cloud, giving users a dedicated fibre channel to Azure.
Azure Australia is understood to be hosted within NextDC co-lo facilities in Sydney and Melbourne, although neither party has confirmed.
NextDC made a net loss of $10.3 million this year, but an improvement from last years’ net loss of $22.9 million.
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