ASX Announcement
Contracted Utilisation and Forward Order Book Update
NEXTDC Limited (ASX: NXT) (“NEXTDC” or “the Company”) is pleased to announce that following recent customer contract wins, the Company’s pro forma contracted utilisation1 as at 31 March 2025 has increased by 52MW (30%) to 228MW since 31 December 2024.
NEXTDC’s Victorian data centre ecosystem has benefited the most from the increased contracted utilisation, including the largest AI deployments recorded in the Company’s data centre portfolio to date. The Victorian pro forma contracted utilisation at 31 March 2025 now stands at 114MW, which represents 161% of built capacity (70.5MW) at 31 December 2024.
As a result of these significant customer contract wins, NEXTDC’s pro forma forward order book at 31 March 2025 has increased by 45MW (54%) to 127MW2 since 31 December 2024, which is a record result for the Company.
Revenue recognition for the majority of the new customer contract wins is expected to commence during FY27 following the completion and commissioning of additional data halls. The full revenue run rate associated with these customer contract wins will be realised from FY28 onwards.
Mr Craig Scroggie, NEXTDC’s Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director said:
“We are very pleased to have recorded the largest increase in contracted utilisation in the Company’s history. The rise of artificial intelligence and high-performance computing is reshaping the data centre industry at speed. Hyperscale customers are scaling AI-native infrastructure at unprecedented levels.”
FY25 Guidance
NEXTDC’s FY25 capital expenditure (capex) guidance has been increased by A$100 million as the Company accelerates a proportion of its’ planned inventory expansion, with the additional capex required to build and deploy capacity for the new customer contract wins:
• A$1,400 million to A$1,600 million (previously A$1,300 million to A$1,500 million)
FY25 Net Revenue and Underlying EBITDA guidance remains unchanged.
Funding
The Company had Liquidity (cash and undrawn debt facilities) of A$2.5 billion at 31 December 2024.
NEXTDC’s Gearing3 was a modest 8.8% at 31 December 2024.
In 1HFY25, NEXTDC restructured and refinanced its senior debt facilities, establishing a new common terms deed platform. NEXTDC now intends to secure new incremental senior debt facilities to allow the Company to debt-fund all of the capex requirements in support of these new customer contract wins.
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For more information:
Simon Guzowski
T: +61 2 8072 4943
E: investorrelations@nextdc.com
NEXTDC Investor Centre
