Macquarie Data Centres enters AI alliance with Dell

Macquarie Data Centres has entered into a collaboration with Dell aimed at providing a secure, sovereign home for AI workloads in Australia.

Under the agreement, Macquarie Data Centres will host a Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA within its IC3 Super West data centre, its newest purpose-built AI and cloud data centre located at its Macquarie Park data centre campus in Sydney. The 43 MW data centre campus is expected to be ready for service in mid-2026.

The deployment will enable organisations to take advantage of AI capabilities while meeting their data security and national regulatory obligations.

The companies will particularly target highly regulated industries such as health care, finance, education and research to help them meet their data storage and processing regulatory compliance conditions. Companies in these industries will be able to use the infrastructure to build, train and deploy advanced AI applications in Australia, such as AI digital twins, agentic AI and private large language models (LLMs).

Macquarie Data Centres CEO David Hirst said the deployment aligns with the Australian Government’s Future Made in Australia policy agenda, which has data centres as a key focus area.

“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,” he said. “Our collaboration with Dell Technologies delivers just that, the perfect marriage of global tech and sovereign infrastructure.”

Dell Technologies ANZ GM for Australia and New Zealand Specialty Platforms Sales Jamie Humphrey said the collaboration with Macquarie Data Centres will help 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,” he said.

Macquarie Data Centres’ parent company Macquarie Technology Group and Dell Technologies have been collaborating for more than 15 years. Macquarie is a certified Dell Titanium Partner.

Image caption: Render of IC3 Super West at the 65 MW Macquarie Park Data Centre Campus in Sydney’s north zone. Credit: Macquarie Data Centres