Market
Canberra: 8 data centres, 6 operators, 73 MW live
There are 8 data centres in Canberra, Australia, spanning 5 sub-markets, 6 operators, 6 operational, 73 MW live, 137 MW total potential. CDC Data Centres alone accounts for 2 sites, ahead of DCI Data Centers.
Map of 12 data centres in Canberra
Every Canberra site DC Atlas tracks with a position on record, coloured by status.
Canberra is one scope of the whole corpus. See every facility DC Atlas tracks on the global data center map.
Live
73MW
Under construction
39MW
Planned
25MW
Total potential
137MW
Who supplies the power
100% of the data centres we track in the Canberra market have a named power supplier
- Evoenergy8sites
Who is building in Canberra
The 6 largest operators here by total potential, of 6 tracked in this market.
| Operator | Sites | Live | Total potential |
|---|---|---|---|
| CDC Data Centres | 2 | 45 MW | 84 MW |
| DCI Data Centers | 1 | — | 25 MW |
| Australian Data Centres | 1 | 21 MW | 21 MW |
| NEXTDC | 1 | 4 MW | 4 MW |
| Macquarie Data Centres | 2 | 2.5 MW | 2.5 MW |
| Equinix | 1 | — | — |
Only 83% of the live facilities here carry a commissioning date across too few years, which is too thin to chart as a build history.
Recent activity
4 recorded developments in the Canberra market, the latest on 18 Apr 2018.
Mitchell Equinix 018 ownership change
Mitchell Equinix 018 changed ownership as part of a transaction on 18 April 2018.
Mitchell Equinix 018 — entered service
Between March 2015 and September of the same year Metronode built a world-class Uptime Institute-certified Tier III data centre in Mitchell, ACT with a target PUE of 1.1
Mitchell Equinix 018 expansion
Mitchell Equinix 018 was expanded in September 2015, when a Tier III data centre certified by the Uptime Institute was built there with a target PUE of 1.1.
Mitchell Equinix 018 — broke ground
Between March 2015 and September of the same year Metronode built a world-class Uptime Institute-certified Tier III data centre in Mitchell, ACT with a target PUE of 1.1
Who is hiring in Canberra
5 open data centre roles at 1 operator we track
CDC Data Centres is the only operator recruiting in Canberra, with 5 roles open across 3 disciplines. The split is 3 build-side to 2 operational, with project management (3) and critical facilities (1) the two largest disciplines. More than half of them, 3 of the 5, were posted in the last 30 days.
- CDC Data Centres5roles
The mix
- project management3
- critical facilities1
- security1
The roles behind those numbers
Most recently opened
- CDC Data Centressecurity19 Sept 2026
- CDC Data Centresproject management8 Sept 2026
- CDC Data Centresproject management2 Sept 2026
- CDC Data Centrescritical facilities7 Aug 2026
- CDC Data Centresproject management27 May 2026
Counted from the operators' own public careers feeds, read daily. A role counts here when the employer runs a data centre we track and the work is operational rather than back office. What these roles involve, and what they pay.
Questions about Canberra
- How many data centres are in Canberra?
- There are 8 data centres in Canberra, Australia, spanning 5 sub-markets, 6 operators, 6 operational, 73 MW live, 137 MW total potential. CDC Data Centres alone accounts for 2 sites, ahead of DCI Data Centers.
- How much data centre capacity does Canberra have?
- DC Atlas tracks 8 data centres in the Canberra data centre market. 73 MW is live, 39 MW is under construction, 25 MW is planned, for 137 MW of total potential at full buildout.
- Who are the largest data centre operators in Canberra?
- 6 operators run facilities in the Canberra data centre market. CDC Data Centres is the largest by total potential, with 2 sites and 84 MW.
- Which utilities supply power to data centres in Canberra?
- Evoenergy serve the most data centre sites in the Canberra data centre market. DC Atlas holds a named power supplier for 100% of the facilities it tracks here.
Every data centre we track in Canberra
8 facilities