Datacom.<\/a><\/p>\nSpeaking on a panel at the Data Centre Exchange Australia in Sydney, Neil said Australia has \u201call the advantages\u201d of a location that you want to build out.<\/p>\n
“State government, strong rule of law, and people want to come here. The thing that’s holding us back is the regulatory compliance framework to get improvements,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we can get those in place, we think we’re strong now, we’ll be even stronger, or be one of the leading economies [globally].\u201d<\/p>\n
Neil said that Australia\u2019s data centre market is very mature, with close to 20 years under its belt.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a market that most people didn’t know about, and so we grew quite successfully,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
However, because data centres are on the world stage, everyone knows about AI, according to Neil. He said this now brings the challenge that demand doesn’t beat supply.<\/p>\n
“We’re trying to build faster, and unfortunately, because of our regulatory environments, local councils, governments, they’re not all in sync. They haven’t kept pace, and we are now seeing the challenges and the bottlenecks coming through,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cUtilities haven’t been deploying because the capital hasn’t been there, we’ve been very successful, but now we’re reaching this point where we are starting to deal with constraints, and we’re not keeping up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Being a part of the data centre industry, Neil understands how \u201cpowerful\u201d data centres are, and called them \u201ckey\u201d and \u201ccritical\u201d drivers.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut everyone else doesn’t, and the backlash from the community is getting louder,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He goes as far to predict at future data centre events there will be picketing outside due to a lack of education about the infrastructure.<\/p>\n
Neil is also noticing that as data centres become more of a \u201cconsumer\u201d topic, they are having an impacting whether or not data centres get built.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re seeing it with some people recently in WA, went through the consenting process, WA is very pro, but then the market or the consumer got involved and effectively [killed] it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Because of this, Neil said this is where education comes into play.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to stop just talking amongst ourselves, but creating an industry body, getting out there,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt really is about educating and informing the market that we’re not just building data centres for the sake of it. It’s mobile phones, digital technology, which is driving it, and connecting that to the end user and getting them on board.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Neil discusses at the Data Centre Exchange in Sydney why Australia is a mature data centre market.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,15778,339067,260318,339066,44],"class_list":["post-695126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-data-center","tag-data-centre-exchange","tag-datacom","tag-matt-neil","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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