Leighton subsidiary Metronode has been selected by the New South Wales Government to consolidate its 130 data centres. The company will be contracted to construct two new centres to consolidate the state’s public sector data hosting requirements.

 

“The NSW Government estimates construction of the centres will create 250 jobs across both sites, while the operational phase will support network and ICT jobs in NSW on an ongoing basis,” State Minister for Finance and Services Greg Pearce said.

 

The contract forms part of the NSW Government’s ICE Strategy 2012 released earlier this month.

 

“The two centres will provide up to 9MW each of IT load allowing the NSW Government to consolidate Government data centres and reduce unnecessary technologies used in its daily operations, with the decommissioning of existing data capacity to begin once the new facilities are complete,” Mr Pearce said.