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Radar · Data Center Infrastructure in Australia

Best Data Center Infrastructure Companies in Australia

The 42 best Data Center Infrastructure companies in Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Firmus.

42companies tracked
$13.1Bdisclosed funding
2unicorns
7have raised
Sources & further reading
  • Data Center Infrastructure Market revenue to cross USD 120 Bn by 2028
  • Data Center Infrastructure Market to Hit $549.99 Billion By 2032, Buil

Ranked: Best Data Center Infrastructure companies in Australia

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackRecent signals
1Firmus 🦄
Provider of AI cloud infrastructure with scalable performance and efficient design
67Funding top 7%AI top 20%Moat top 47%Tech top 49%
All 7 signals ▾
Fundingtop 7%
AItop 20%
Moattop 47%
Techtop 49%
Talentbottom 49%
Marketbottom 46%
Globalbottom 37%
Funding: Raised $11.1B across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 1 yrs (4.0/yr)
AI: Classified as an AI company
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 67/100
$11.1B4 mo agoSeries FTim Rosenfield
Co-Chief Executive Officer
2019TurbopackApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+141 job opening · 3 partnerships
2NEXTDC
Operator of data centers providing colocation and cloud connectivity services
$1.4B75 mo agoPublicCraig Scroggie
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director
2010HubSpot CMS HubSalesforceAmazon Web Services+291 launch · 1 expansion
3AirTrunk 🦄
Provider of data center colocation solutions
$639M68 mo agoAcquiredRobin Khuda
Founder & CEO
2015WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+31
4Leading Edge DC
Provider of data center colocation sevrices
$34M51 mo agoSeries BChris Thorpe
CEO and Founder
2019WebflowWordPressBugHerd+25
5Edge Centres
AI based data center solutions for edge computing
$15M48 mo agoSeries AJonathan Eaves
Founder and CEO
2021Radix UITailwind CSSshadcn/ui+8
6Intervolve
Provider of dedicated servers, virtual servers, data centres and colocation
$6M186 mo agoSeries ARichard Macko
Co-Founder
1998
7TasmaNet
IT hosting infrastructure, and data centers company
$5M62 mo agoAcquired2004
8Mawson Infrastructure Group
Operator of digital infrastructure for AI/HPC, digital assets, and Bitcoin
$327K51 mo agoPublicRahul Mewawalla
CEO & President
2019WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+40

Top 8 Data Center Infrastructure companies in Australia

#1
Firmus 🦄
Series F · Saint Leonards, Tasmania · founded 2019 · 25 employees
$11.1Braised

Provider of AI cloud infrastructure with scalable performance and efficient design. It offers GPU-powered cloud compute, bare metal options, and AI storage solutions. The infrastructure is designed for running experiments, training models, and launching agents. The company focuses on modular, verticalized systems to optimize cost and power consumption. It engineers infrastructure from the silicon level up, co-designing compute, network, power, and cooling for system-wide efficiency. The company also provides resources for AI factories and research.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 67how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 7%
AI
top 20%
Moat
top 47%
Tech
top 49%
Talent
bottom 49%
Market
bottom 46%
Funding: Raised $11.1B across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 1 yrs (4.0/yr) · Last round Series F (Apr 2026)
AI: Classified as an AI company
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 1/10 · Unicorn · 10 curated direct competitors tracked
Audience (LinkedIn): 12k LinkedIn followers — 6.0% of this cohort's audience
Hiring (LinkedIn): 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Customer Success Manager, Technical Account Manager
Activity (LinkedIn): 3 partnerships (incl. NVIDIA Vera Rubin and the Vera CPU) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2026Series F$505M
  • Feb 2026Conventional Debt$10B
  • Nov 2025Series E$327.6M
  • Sep 2025Series D$219.8M
Founders & team
Tim RosenfieldCo-Chief Executive Officer
Investors
Ellerston Capital, Nvidia, Blackstone, Coatue, Powerhouse Ventures, Tectonic
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailAzureGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Tag ManagerHstsMicrosoft 365
#2
Public · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2010 · 271 employees
$1.4Braised

Operator of data centers providing colocation and cloud connectivity services. Facilities offer rack space, private cages, and suites for housing information technology infrastructure. Services include power, cooling, and security for mission critical hardware. Connectivity options facilitate access to public and private cloud platforms through cross connects and virtual networking hubs. Infrastructure supports high performance computing and disaster recovery requirements.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 58k LinkedIn followers — 29.2% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches · 1 expansions announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • May 2020Post IPO$433.9M
  • Jun 2019Conventional Debt$139.6M
  • May 2019Conventional Debt$207.7M
  • Apr 2018Post IPO$230.8M
Founders & team
Craig ScroggieChief Executive Officer & Managing Director
Investors
National Australia Bank, CVC, Capitalb, AMCIL
Tech stack
6SenseActivecampaignAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesAnimate.CssCdnjs
#3
Acquired · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2015 · 256 employees
$639.4Mraised

Provider of data center colocation solutions. The platform designs, builds, and operates data centers for cloud, content, and enterprise customers. Its hyperscale model supports capacity deployment in real time.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 62k LinkedIn followers — 31.0% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2020Grant (prize money)
  • Apr 2019Conventional Debt$332.4M
  • Apr 2019PE
  • Aug 2018Conventional Debt$622.9M
Founders & team
Robin KhudaFounder & CEO
Investors
Goldman Sachs, TPG, Deutsche Bank, Natixis, ING, TMTFinance
Tech stack
AosApple Icloud MailAutoptimizeCdnjsCloudflareCloudflare Bot Management
#4
Series B · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2019 · 17 employees
$34.3Mraised

Provider of data center colocation services. The product offers power, cooling, fire suppression, network, security, and solutions for data centers. The features of the product include temperature and humidity monitoring, and live video authentication. It also provides solutions for data center connectivity.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 6k LinkedIn followers — 3.1% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • May 2022Series B$21.2M
  • May 2020Series B$13.1M
Founders & team
Chris ThorpeCEO and Founder
Investors
DigitalBridge, WHSP, Sparklabscultiv8
Tech stack
BugherdCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsFacebook PixelGoogle Analytics
#5
Series A · Grafton, New South Wales · founded 2021 · 4 employees
$14.7Mraised

AI based data center solutions for edge computing. It offers an edge data center serving ISP, RSP, and MSP with colocation, dark fiber, IP transit, and cloud connect services. It also offers services such as carrier neutral interconnection, POI connexes, edge matrix solutions and an AI-based platform that analyses and offers insights into the site performance in real-time.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Aug 2022Series A$5.7M
  • Apr 2022Series A$9M
Founders & team
Jonathan EavesFounder and CEO
Investors
Cloudlink
Tech stack
CloudflareHstsHttp/3Microsoft 365Open GraphPwa
#6
Acquired · Hobart, Tasmania · founded 2004 · 46 employees
$5.3Mraised

TasmaNet offers IT hosting infrastructures such as data center and cloud services. It also offers managed networks, business continuity, network applications. Its data center is located in Hobart and offers colocation services including racks, cabinets, and private cages. The company's network appliances for service include routers, firewalls, and load balancers. Its IT services are operating system support, technical skills, OS patching, data management, storage, connectivity, user-environment, and accessibility.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1k LinkedIn followers
Investors
Department of Communications and the Arts
Tech stack
StatamicSentryPhpUbuntuLaravelNginx
#7
Series A · Adelaide, South Australia · founded 1998
$6Mraised

Intervolve offers a data center, dedicated server, VPS virtual server, colocation, security, network, and server management services. Its data centers are located in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, and Sydney. The company also offers purchasing of & data center server. Switching Routing hardware platforms SAN system hardware, and Security Firewall hardware

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2011Series A$6M
Founders & team
Richard MackoCo-Founder
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpZurb FoundationWordpress Super CachePopup Maker
#8
Public · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2019 · 46 employees
$327Kraised

Operator of digital infrastructure for AI/HPC, digital assets, and Bitcoin. The company provides infrastructure solutions across high-growth sectors, including artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, and blockchain network applications. It offers colocation services for digital asset mining operations, providing infrastructure designed for performance and efficiency. The company also owns and operates Bitcoin mining facilities.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 11k LinkedIn followers — 5.5% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships · 1 expansions (incl. Mawson Infrastructure Group Inc.) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • May 2022Post IPO$327K
Founders & team
Rahul MewawallaCEO & President
Investors
Seed Space, SpringCapital Investment, Mitchell Group

Funding & investor landscape

$13.1Btotal disclosed funding
8companies funded
21disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
AMCIL1 rounds
ASC1 rounds
Blackstone1 rounds
CVC1 rounds
Capitalb1 rounds
Cloudlink1 rounds
Coatue1 rounds
Department of Communications and the Arts1 rounds
Deutsche Bank1 rounds
DigitalBridge1 rounds

Notable founders

Tim Rosenfield
Co-Chief Executive Officer · Firmus
Craig Scroggie
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director · NEXTDC
Robin Khuda
Founder & CEO · AirTrunk
Chris Thorpe
CEO and Founder · Leading Edge DC
Jonathan Eaves
Founder and CEO · Edge Centres
Richard Macko
Co-Founder · Intervolve
Rahul Mewawalla
CEO & President · Mawson Infrastructure Group
Prism market signals · Australia · country-scoped Prism corpus, 180,047 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Data Center Infrastructure coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH SIGNALS · Australia

How research on Cloud Computing is moving in Australia

A read on the academic research around Cloud Computing — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 821 Australia-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
201020172026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 16% → 57% across 2010–2026.
top research entities
  • Department of Commerce72
  • Deakin University63
  • The University of Melbourne53
  • UNSW Sydney48
  • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation47
leading researchers
Rajkumar Buyya · Rajiv Ranjan · Rodrigo N. Calheiros · Willy Susilo · Shui Yu · Yi Huang · Yong Xiang · Anton Beloglazov
Breakthroughs367 · 45%
▲ 36%→47% share
▲1.3× share momentum0 median citations75% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (36%→47% of field), led by Scalability.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Scalability6→37
  • Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution1→30
  • Workflow3→19
  • Key (lock)4→19
  • Encryption10→25
Newly emergingPoint cloud 0→33 · Inference 0→13 · Point (geometry) 0→13
Landmark CloudSim: a toolkit for modeling and simulation of cloud computing environments and evaluation of resource provisioning · 4,889 cites
Advancements220 · 27%
▼ 29%→26% share
▼0.9× share momentum0 median citations70% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements are cooling (29%→26% of field), led by Key (lock).
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Key (lock)1→12
  • Big data1→11
  • Workflow3→13
  • Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution1→9
  • Leverage (statistics)1→8
Newly emergingDigital transformation 0→11 · Point cloud 0→7 · Institutional research 0→7
Landmark Overview of the CALIPSO Mission and CALIOP Data Processing Algorithms · 2,846 cites
Concerns154 · 19%
▼ 23%→17% share
▼0.7× share momentum1 median citations66% since 2021mostly reviews
Concerns are cooling (23%→17% of field), led by Data security.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Data security1→10
  • Server2→6
  • Big data4→8
  • Edge computing2→5
  • Business model1→4
Newly emergingKey (lock) 0→21 · Digital transformation 0→14 · Software deployment 0→8
Landmark Urban Computing · 1,303 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · Australia

Where cloud computing is researched across Australia

Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.

Melbourne252 · +0.51
Hot · Distributed computingAdvancing · Scheduling (production processes)Opportunity · Point cloudConcern · Data science
Sydney186 · +0.61
Hot · Data miningAdvancing · Information privacyOpportunity · Point cloudConcern · Wireless sensor network
Brisbane37 · +0.61
Hot · ScalabilityAdvancing · Overhead (engineering)Opportunity · Software deployment
Perth37 · +0.56
Hot · Point cloudAdvancing · WorkloadOpportunity · Geometry
Canberra21 · +0.53
Hot · Computer networkAdvancing · ScalabilityOpportunity · Astrophysics
Adelaide21 · +0.57
Hot · WorkflowAdvancing · Computer networkOpportunity · Satellite

Common questions

How many Data Center Infrastructure companies are there in Australia?
Radar tracks 42 indexable Data Center Infrastructure companies headquartered in Australia that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Data Center Infrastructure companies in Australia?
The Data Center Infrastructure companies in Australia on this list have raised a combined $13.1B in disclosed equity funding across 8 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Data Center Infrastructure company in Australia?
Firmus is the highest-funded Data Center Infrastructure company in Australia, with $11.1B in disclosed equity funding.
How many Data Center Infrastructure companies in Australia are funded?
8 of the 42 Data Center Infrastructure companies in Australia on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Data Center Infrastructure unicorns are there in Australia?
2 Data Center Infrastructure companies in Australia on this list are valued at $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Australia Data Center Infrastructure companies?
The most active investors in Australia Data Center Infrastructure companies on this list include AMCIL, ASC, Blackstone, CVC, Capitalb.
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