Video / NZ HeraldAmazon plans to spend $7.5 billion building a cluster of huge data centres in Auckland, due to open in 2024. The tech giant says the Amazon Web Services build will create 1000 jobs, and add $10.8 billion to New Zealand's GDP over a decade and a half. Local data centres will make both easier in terms of potential data sovereignty issues. Image / CDCHalf Infratil-owned Canberra Data Centres (CDC) also has two "hyper-scale" data centres under construction, one in Hobsonville in northwest Auckland and the other north of the city in Silverdale. A second Australian contender, DCI Data Centres applied for OIA permission to build two data centres in Auckland.

Source: New Zealand Herald September 22, 2021 22:33 UTC