Australia has been in the news repeatedly this year as the country as a whole works to improve internet speed and quality for all of its citizens. Not only are companies all over Australia concentrating on rolling out better existing technologies, Australian companies have been willing to experiment with new technologies (like the good but flawed BPL network). Now Digital Sense is tackling Australia’s high density data centers.

The company is starting with two commissions to the tune of $3.2 million AUS. The lucky recipients are Kenmore and Brisbane. Kenmore gets the first data center, which will have 2000 watts per square meter of floor space in the 400 meter facility. That facility is the first high density, high power data center built for that purpose.

Digital Sense is working with Emerson Network Power to pull of the data center build out and one other - operating under the code name Data Center City, coined for its size (a whopping 10,000 square meters). Once completed, Data Center City will offer an unheard of 6500 watts per square meter and become the largest data center facility in Australia.

“Australian companies are demanding computer power an order of magnitude more powerful than what they were using only a few years ago - high-density blade servers processing millions of transactions per second to keep them globally competitive,” Emerson Network Power Australia national product manager, Mark Deguara said. “At the same time they don’t have the skills, resources or space to house and manage this equipment themselves, so they need to find suitable facilities to host their business-critical systems.

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