AirTrunk is advancing plans for a data center campus at 45 Donnybrook Road in Mickleham, about 35km north of central Melbourne, DatacenterDynamics reported. The application, first filed in July without a named applicant, covers up to seven buildings inside the Fusion Business Park near the Kalkallo Zone Substation, and AirTrunk is holding community information sessions in November. The company said the campus would use air based cooling, would not use community water for cooling in normal operations, and would fund its own grid connection and new renewable energy projects.
AirTrunk has also come out as the operator behind a 540MW data center proposed at the former Hydro Aluminium Kurri Kurri smelter site in Loxford, New South Wales, on a 21 hectare site next to Snowy Hydro’s 660MW Kurri Kurri gas power station. The smelter closed in 2014 and remediation is substantially complete.