Australian Data Centres and Submarine Cables Outlook
- Publisher Venture Insights.
- Publish Date December 9, 2020
- Sector Big Data, Cloud, Internet, Technology.
- Company

This week’s announcement by Amazon of a major datacentre investment in Melbourne highlights the rapid expansion of Australia’s datacentre market:
- The Australian data centre (DC) market is rapidly expanding, forecast to reach over A$2.5bn by 2026 with nearly 1,500 MW of capacity. Current revenues are A$1.2bn with 620 MW capacity
- Currently, a majority of data stored in outsourced DCs are from enterprise and government clients. However, the market is moving towards the hyperscale segment, due to ongoing shift to cloud-based computing. We predict hyperscale to generate 50% of total DC revenue in 2026, occupying 55% of total supply
Contents
Executive Summary
Customer segments
Revenue by players
Revenue by segment
Supply volume by player
Supply volume by geography
Pricing and supply volume by segment
New builds and government funding
Growth in Data Centre Market
Data Centre Trends – Edge Computing
Submarine Cables - Australia
Submarine Cables – Summary
Submarine Cables – Trends and Drivers
Figures
Fig. 1: Outsourced data centre revenues by segment (%)
Fig. 2: Outsourced data centre revenues by player (%)
Figure 3: Data centre revenue by segment ($m)
Figure 4: Supply volume by player (%)
Figure 5: Supply volume by geography (%)
Figure 6: Supply volume by segment (%)
Figure 7: Pricing by segment ($m/MW)
Figure 8: Conventional cloud vs edge computing comparison
Figure 9: Map of Australian submarine cables