Rackspace have just announced a Sydney-based datacentre, to be live by the end of 2012:
Today we launched the 9th global data centre to the media in Sydney, Australia #RackspaceAusDC
— Rackspace Asia (@RackspaceAsia) August 21, 2012
New Rackspace DC in Erskine Park in Sydney and PUE of 1.3 using air cooling first customers live by year's end #rackspaceausdc
— Rodney Gedda (@rodneygedda) August 21, 2012
I’m looking forward to seeing increased competition in the Australian Cloud Hosting arena. Your turn now, AWS? 🙂
Update 22/8/2012 3:10pm: Rackspace have published details on the Sydney datacentre here.
Update 17/6/2013: Rackspace’s Sydney Datacentre is now online.
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