Media Release
M4 Technology Campus Approved
NEXTDC has secured Development Approval from the Victorian Government for its #M4 technology campus at the Fishermans Bend Innovation Precinct in Port Melbourne, marking a significant milestone in the project’s delivery.
M4 is a $2 billion digital infrastructure investment at 127 Todd Road, on the former Westgate Park Printing Complex. Once home to the nation’s largest newspaper presses, the site now marks a shift from printing stories to building the infrastructure that produces intelligence at scale.
M4 will anchor the Fishermans Bend Innovation Precinct as a nationally strategic hub for advanced manufacturing, aerospace, sovereign defence, and deep technology. That is why the Victorian Government designated Fishermans Bend a National Employment and Innovation Cluster.
Premier Jacinta Allan said: “We’re open for business and we’re backing Victorians every step of the way. This major investment means more jobs and training for the next generation of tech workers.”
Minister Danny Pearson added: “This project will create high-skilled jobs for Victorians and lay the groundwork to support future developments in advanced manufacturing and defence.”
Minister Harriet Shing reinforced the precinct importance: “This major investment by NEXTDC is another clear signal to the world that Fishermans Bend is a key industry and market centre for growth and in-demand industries, which in turn is driving jobs and economic growth for Victoria.”
M4 will be a 162MW digital infrastructure campus bringing together a hyperscale AI Factory, a sovereign-grade mission-critical operations centre, and a Technology Centre of Excellence to support skills development, research, and industry collaboration.
The campus is designed for world leading sustainability with direct-to-chip, closed-loop liquid cooling, supporting rack densities of 1,000kW with recycled water (non potable) cooling.
This isn’t just a data centre. It is critical infrastructure for Australia’s AI future. Digital infrastructure is economic infrastructure. AI factories are a new class of industrial asset, purpose-built for sovereign capability, resilience, and long-term competitiveness.
M4 is expected to support thousands of high-value jobs across digital infrastructure operations, defence technology, advanced manufacturing, and research, acting as a convergence point for industry, government, and academia inside a precinct built for the future of space, science, defence and technology.
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About NEXTDC
NEXTDC is an ASX 100-listed technology company and Asia’s most innovative Data Centre-as-a-Service provider. We are building the infrastructure platform for the digital economy, delivering the
critical power, security and connectivity for global cloud computing providers, enterprise, and
Government.
NEXTDC is recognised globally for the design, construction, and operation of Australia’s only
network of Uptime Institute certified Tier IV facilities, and the only data centre operator in the
Southern Hemisphere to achieve Tier IV Gold certification for Operational Sustainability. NEXTDC
has a strong focus on sustainability and operational excellence through renewable energy
sources and delivering world-class operational efficiency. Our data centres have been engineered
to deliver exceptional levels of efficiency and the industry’s lowest Total Cost of Operation through
NABERS 5-star energy efficiency.
NEXTDC’s corporate operations have been certified carbon neutral under the Australian
Government’s Climate Active Carbon Neutral Standard.
Our Cloud Centre partner ecosystem is Australia’s most dynamic digital marketplace, comprising
carriers, cloud providers and IT service providers, enabling local and international customers to
source and connect with cloud platforms, service providers and vendors to build complex hybrid
cloud networks and scale their critical IT infrastructure services.
NEXTDC is where the cloud lives®.
