Macquarie-backed Vocus plans to invest around A$500 million ($343.50 million) to build a fibre network route between Sydney and Melbourne to meet the rising AI-driven data centre demand, the company said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n
The route, which Vocus said will \u200cbe \u2060the country’s \u2060first ducted long-haul network, will be ready by 2029 and create more than 1,000 jobs. Ducted networks carry fragile underground cables in protective conduits. <\/p>\n
The Sydney-Melbourne corridor currently carries roughly 40% of Australia’s long-haul data traffic and is expected to be undersupplied in the \u2060near future \u200cwithout new investment, Vocus said. Companies worldwide are pouring billions into developing infrastructure capable of handling \u2060the rapid growth in data centres. Spending by Big Tech firms on AI infrastructure is set to top $700 billion in 2026, up from around $600 billion previously. <\/p>\n
“Australia, like many countries in the world, currently lacks sufficient terrestrial and subsea networks to enable existing and future AI workloads,” said \u200cAndres Irlando, Vocus chief executive. <\/p>\n
Vocus will make the investment through its flagship multi-year initiative, the Australian Digital Infrastructure Platform, and \u2060will deploy ducted technology typically used by AI and cloud providers in North America and Europe. The company is also backed by pension fund Aware Super, and in 2025, it completed its acquisition of TPG Telecom’s fibre and fixed network infrastructure assets for A$5.25 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Macquarie-backed Vocus plans to invest around A$500 million ($343.50 million) to build a fibre network route between Sydney and Melbourne to meet the rising AI-driven data centre demand, the company said on Tuesday. The route, which Vocus said will \u200cbe \u2060the country’s \u2060first ducted long-haul network, will be ready by 2029 and create more than 1,000 jobs. Ducted networks carry fragile underground cables in protective conduits. The Sydney-Melbourne corridor currently carries roughly 40% of Australia’s long-haul data traffic and is expected to be undersupplied in the \u2060near future \u200cwithout new investment, Vocus said. Companies worldwide are pouring billions into developing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017887,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017865\/revisions\/1017887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}