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Photos: Digital Realty opens Erskine Park data centre

Home of Australia's first Rackspace cluster.

on Jan 25 2013 7:40AM

Welcome aboard (aboard?) Digital Realty's Erskine Park data centre, home of Rackspace's first cloud cluster.

The 8,020 square metre facility comprises four 1440 kW Turn-Key FlexSM Performance Optimized 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..

Anchor tenant Rackspace occupies one of four data halls. It has been offering live services from the facility since December last year.

PDUs and under-floor cooling.

There are eight plant rooms - two per data hall.

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.

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 (aboard?) Digital Realty's Erskine Park data centre, home of Rackspace's first cloud cluster.

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