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Macquarie Data Centres has teamed up with Dell Technologies to host Dell’s NVIDIA-powered AI Factory inside its sovereign, government-grade facilities in Australia.
The partnership is designed to help Australian organisations harness artificial intelligence while meeting strict data security and sovereignty requirements. The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA will be housed in Macquarie’s new IC3 Super West facility, purpose-built for high-scale, high-power AI workloads.
Bringing together Dell’s AI infrastructure expertise and Macquarie’s secure sovereign hosting, the solution targets industries with stringent compliance rules such as healthcare, finance, education, and research where data location and processing are tightly regulated.
According to Macquarie, the facility will enable projects across enterprise AI, private AI, and neo cloud, providing a secure foundation for building, training, and deploying advanced applications, including AI digital twins, agentic AI, and private large language models (LLMs).
The federal government has underscored the importance of data centres in its Future Made in Australia policy, positioning national data infrastructure as a cornerstone for boosting AI-driven productivity and safeguarding Australia’s digital sovereignty.
Macquarie Data Centres Chief Executive Officer David Hirst said,
“For Australia’s AI-driven future to be secure, we must ensure that Australian data centres play a core role in AI, data, infrastructure, and operations. Our collaboration with Dell Technologies delivers just that, the perfect marriage of global tech and sovereign infrastructure.”
The new IC3 Super West facility, where the AI infrastructure will be based, is under construction at Macquarie Park Data Centre Campus in northern Sydney. The 47MW data centre is planned to be ready by mid-2026, with all the required power secured to support both current and future AI workloads.
Dell Technologies’ General Manager for Australia and New Zealand Specialty Platforms Sales, Jamie Humphrey, commented,
“Our work with Macquarie Data Centres helps bring the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA vision to life in Australia. Together, we are enabling organisations to develop and deploy AI as a transformative and competitive advantage in Australia in a way that is secure, sovereign and scalable.”
