Behind the scenes at AirTrunk's Sydney data centre
[Photos] Massive facility cost more $200 million.
on Sep 20 2017 4:49PM
Startup data centre provider AirTrunk launched its new Sydney facility on Wednesday 20 September (read the full story here).
The 64,000 square metre facility in the Sydney suburb of Huntingwood cost more than $200 million to construct and took 44 weeks to build.
The first phase boasts 20MW of capacity with scope for more than 80MW of IT load when completed. AirTrunk has already announced second phase, which will add 10MW when it launches in mid-2018.
The site's master plan includes scope for more than 30 modular data halls across four construction phases, and will employ 180 staff at its completion.
The construction took 460,000 hours, using 1350 tonnes of steel, 9000 cubic metres of concrete and 50km of cable.
AirTrunk expects individual customers to take entire data halls: the Sydney facility will house more than 30 discrete halls, each offering around 2.5-3MW of capacity.
AirTrunk's CTO, Damian Spillane, called its electricity infrastructure "one of our key distinguishing factors".
The Sydney facility has a 132kV diverse high-voltage power feed, fed by two onsite substations – enough electricity to power 24,000 homes, according to AirTrunk.
AirTrunk chief executive Robin Khuda estimated this model of electricity consumption would save 8-10 percent compared with typical power costs.
The data centre is aimed at hyperscale cloud providers like Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google, as well as content and enterprise customers.
AirTrunk’s Melbourne campus will launch in coming weeks with capacity of more than 50MW of IT load when fully completed.
Startup data centre provider AirTrunk launched its new Sydney facility on Wednesday 20 September (read the full story here).
The 64,000 square metre facility in the Sydney suburb of Huntingwood cost more than $200 million to construct and took 44 weeks to build.