An image of HP's portable data center pod
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — HP (www.hp.com) announced on Wednesday it will invest $122 million to build a new data center in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia, according to a report by Datacenter Dynamics.
The move comes a week after the company released HP Hybrid Delivery solutions, a suite of new cloud products and services designed for businesses and governments.
In December, HP first submitted planning documents for the data center project to the South Wales government.
At the time of the announcement, HP said the construction process will generate 200 jobs and will take about a year to complete. Once built, the data center will be operated by five full-time operations workers.
Located in the area of V8 motorsport’s Eastern Creek Raceway, phase one of the data center’s colocation space will be the equivalent of nine tennis courts.
Phase one will open at the end of the year. Once the data center is built out to full capacity, it will be the equivalent of 45 tennis courts.
HP says the new data center is part of the company’s cloud computing-focused strategy in offering $1 billion in global infrastructure services.
Meanwhile, the Australian government said the build is being driven by the country’s National Broadband Plan, which it anticipates will increase the adoption rate of cloud services in the nation.
HP’s data center is just one of many new projects currently underway throughout the country, according to Australian Federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy.
However, HP South Pacific managing director Paul Branding said the new Eastern Creek data center project is part of the company’s overall push for expanding its solutions in the region, and just so happens to coincide with the timing of the NBN.
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