NEXTDC M1 Port Melbourne
OperationalNEXTDC M1 Port Melbourne is a data center (Uptime Tier III, certified) in Melbourne (Port Melbourne), Australia, operated by NEXTDC, with 16 MW of published IT capacity, currently operational.
NEXTDC M1 is an operational 16 MW data centre in Melbourne (Port Melbourne).
- Operator
- NEXTDC
- City
- Melbourne (Port Melbourne), Australia
- Power, MW
- 16 MW
- Cooling
- Air
- Uptime Tier
- III · certified
- Floor space
- 6,000 m²
- Racks
- 3,000
- Market benchmark
- $188 per kW per month wholesale · Australia
- Index rate for the market, not this operator’s price list
2 sources · last checked 2026-10-06 · data pending on-site verification
Coloprice Score
65 out of 100
Class B · #6 of 168 in Australia
- Resilience20/35
- Compliance17/20
- Transparency10/20
- Scale11/15
- Maturity7/10
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NEXTDC M1 is the operator's Port Melbourne data centre, the first building of its Melbourne campus, linked by data centre interconnects to M2 Tullamarine and M3 West Footscray. NEXTDC lists 6,000 m² of technical space, 16 MW of IT capacity and a 3,000-rack capacity, and describes the site as Tier III certified to the Uptime Institute standard. Power is N+1 with N+N at rack level, a 1.336 MW Piller DRUPS system, 100% UPS coverage of critical equipment, MTU (Rolls-Royce) engines and at least 12 hours of onsite fuel. Cooling uses N+1 water-cooled chillers, cooling towers and pumps with dual primary pipework, CRAC units outside the data halls, hot-aisle containment in halls 1–3 and cold-aisle containment in halls 4–6. Listed certifications include ISO 9001, 14001, 45001 and 27001, SOC 1 and 2 Type II, PCI DSS and DTA strategic hosting. The street address is not given on the page.
- ▮6,000 m² of technical space, 16 MW of IT capacity and 3,000-rack capacity, per NEXTDC.
- ▮Tier III Uptime Institute standard, N+1 power with a 1.336 MW Piller DRUPS.
- ▮Six data halls: hot-aisle containment in halls 1–3, cold-aisle containment in halls 4–6.
- ▮Dual geodiverse fibre interconnects to M2 and M3 are available.
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