Aussie government unemployment agency Services Australia has signed an extension on its contract with Canberra Data Centres (CDC).
The contract spans five years and is valued at AU$226.1 million (US$141.7m).
Services Australia will continue to lease space in CDC's Hume and Fyshwick data centers located in the Australian Capital Territory, as reported by iTNews.
In a contract notice published on February 11, the contract is described as covering "computer hardware maintenance" and will expire at the end of January 2030.
Services Australia has been a customer of CDC since 2011, at the time signing a ten-year agreement valued then at AU$106.1m. In 2016, it signed a second deal, which expired at the end of January 2025 and covered the Hume data center.
Earlier this year, Services Australia announced that it would be carrying out an overhaul of its entire IT architecture over the next ten years. The government agency is currently drawing up a strategy due to be completed by June 2025.
A capability review published in January 2025 found that while it was meeting key targets around availability, the agency needed IT modernization. The overhaul will be achieved incrementally by deploying "new software architectures and cloud infrastructure," with the review noting that "while some re-platforming may still be required, significant architectural improvements can be achieved progressively, continually delivering new functionality.”
CDC has 20 data centers across Australia and New Zealand. In Canberra, the company operates the Hume Campus One which has three data centers and 21MW of capacity, Huma Campus Two which features two data centers with 51MW of capacity, and the Fyshwick Campus which has two data centers with 45MW. A fourth campus, dubbed Beard Campus, is currently under construction and will offer 39MW.
Other customers of CDC include the Australian Electoral Commission, as well as the Reserve Bank of Australia, which is currently undergoing a mass migration and modernization project that will see it using CDC as its primary data center.
In October 2024, CDC, which is reportedly looking to sell a minority stake in its business, broke ground on a 504MW data center campus in Sydney.
