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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- IT services provider Fujitsu (www.fujitsu.com) announced this week it is currently scouting areas of Western Sydney, Australia for a location with sufficient power to build a new data center.
Fujitsu is currently building new data centers in both Perth and Melbourne to meet customer demand, which can be attributed to the lack of data center space in the country.
In fact, Fujitsu CEO Rod Vawdrey estimates there Australia currently has a shortage of 164,000 square feet in data centre space.
And despite the many empty server rooms in data centers around the country, the majority of them do not have sufficient power to host today's dense blade-based servers, says Vawdrey.
Fujitsu's existing data center in Homebush is "essentially full", says Vawdrey, adding that the company is about to make some further investments in New South Wales.
The company is seeking an area that offers cooler temperatures in order to deploy new free cooling power reduction designs as it is doing in Perth and Melbourne. Vawdrey says that he thinks the Western Sydney offers these conditions.
Meanwhile, employees at the company's London office will go on a three-day national strike from November 12, 13 and 16, to protest against jobs, pay and pensions.
UK management recently announced plans to cut 1,200 jobs, a pay freeze imposed earlier this year, and its decision to close the final salary pension scheme.
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