https://aidatacenterindex.com/regions/oceania/feed/ Chronological feed for Oceania using the best public timeline year available for each tracked facility. https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/aws-melbourne-ap-southeast-4-australia.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/aws-melbourne-ap-southeast-4-australia.html Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Operational | 80 MW — Amazon Web Services launched its Melbourne, Australia region (ap-southeast-4) in January 2023 — the second full AWS region in Australia, complementing the original Sydney region (ap-southeast-2) that has operated since 2012. The Melbourne r https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/google-cloud-new-zealand-auckland-region.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/google-cloud-new-zealand-auckland-region.html Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand | Operational | 40 MW — Google Cloud launched its New Zealand region in Auckland in 2023, providing the first major hyperscale cloud region with full data residency in New Zealand. The region enables New Zealand government agencies (which have strong data sovereig https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-australia-ai-expansion.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-australia-ai-expansion.html Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, New South Wales, Victoria, ACT, Australia | Operational — Microsoft announced an A$5 billion investment to expand hyperscale cloud computing and AI infrastructure in Australia over two years. The company says the investment will grow its local datacentre footprint from 20 sites to 29 across Canber https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/google-sydney-australia-ai-data-center.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/google-sydney-australia-ai-data-center.html Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | Operational | 120 MW — Google Cloud's Sydney region (australia-southeast1), launched in 2017, is Google's primary Australian AI infrastructure facility and serves the Australian and New Zealand market under Australian Privacy Act requirements. The facility provid https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/aws-sydney-ap-southeast-2-australia.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/aws-sydney-ap-southeast-2-australia.html Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | Operational | 300 MW — Amazon Web Services AP-SOUTHEAST-2 — the Sydney region — is AWS's primary Australian cloud and AI infrastructure hub, launched in November 2012. Operating across three availability zones across facilities in the greater Sydney area, it serv https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/airtrunk-mel2-melbourne-hyperscale-campus.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/airtrunk-mel2-melbourne-hyperscale-campus.html Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Planned | 354 MW — AirTrunk MEL2 is a massive 354 MW hyperscale data center campus in Melbourne, Victoria. Part of AirTrunk’s broader Australian platform that exceeds 1.2 GW of capacity, MEL2 is designed to meet the extreme power and cooling requirements of g https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/datagrid-ai-factory-southland-new-zealand.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/datagrid-ai-factory-southland-new-zealand.html Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand | Planned | 280 MW — Datagrid’s "AI Factory" in Makarewa, near Invercargill, is a landmark 280 MW hyperscale project designed specifically for high-density AI training and inference. Spanning 78,000 square meters, it will be the second-largest electricity user https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-kemps-creek-sydney-hyperscale-campus.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-kemps-creek-sydney-hyperscale-campus.html Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | Under Construction | 190 MW — Microsoft’s 190 MW hyperscale campus in Kemps Creek, Western Sydney, is a central component of its A$5 billion Australian infrastructure expansion. This facility is purpose-built to handle the massive compute requirements of Azure AI and Op https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/nextdc-m4-melbourne-ai-factory.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/nextdc-m4-melbourne-ai-factory.html Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Under Construction | 160 MW — NEXTDC’s M4 Melbourne is a $2 billion flagship "AI Factory" under construction in Fishermans Bend, Melbourne’s premier urban renewal precinct. With planned capacity of 150-162 MW across a purpose-built hyperscale campus, M4 represents Austr https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/aws-new-zealand-cloud-region.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/aws-new-zealand-cloud-region.html Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand | Operational | 100 MW — The AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region, officially launched in late 2025, represents a NZ$7.5 billion commitment to local digital infrastructure and marks a milestone in New Zealand’s digital sovereignty — the first time a global hypersc https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-aotearoa-new-zealand-region.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-aotearoa-new-zealand-region.html Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand | Operational | 100 MW — Microsoft Aotearoa (NZ North) is Microsoft’s first hyperscale data center region in New Zealand, having opened in late 2024 and reaching full operational scale in 2026. The region provides local data residency and advanced AI capabilities v https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/google-christmas-island-ai-data-node.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/google-christmas-island-ai-data-node.html Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island, Australia | Planned | 7 MW — Google is developing a specialized 7 MW AI data node on Christmas Island, an Australian external territory located approximately 2,650 km northwest of Perth in the northeastern Indian Ocean — closer to Java, Indonesia than to the Australian