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NEXTDC wins Frost & Sullivan’s 2025 Australian Competitive Strategy Leadership Award — Data Centre Services

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Frost & Sullivan identified NEXTDC as a strategic leader in delivering high-density, high-performance infrastructure for AI and HPC, recognising our Competitive Strategy Leadership in Australia’s data centre services industry. The report highlights our sovereign-scale, sustainable facilities across Australia and our expansion into Asia.

Why NEXTDC

  • Engineered for speed and scale - future-ready capacity, rapid delivery, and facilities designed for efficiency, resilience and compliance.
  • Mission-critical reliability - Tier III & Tier IV facilities, deep security and sovereignty, and disciplined operations across a national platform.
  • AI-ready by design - advanced liquid-cooling options and exceptionally high power densities (130 kW today up to 600 kW+, with roadmap towards 1,000 kW) to accelerate AI/HPC workloads.

Why this matters (what Frost & Sullivan highlights customers experience)

  • Operational certainty - Protected, connected and available workloads supported by sovereignty, security, and strong compliance posture.
  • Future readiness - AI-optimised infrastructure and a flagship partnership with NVIDIA providing validated GPU reference architectures and a growing neocloud GPU ecosystem.
  • Strategic advantage - Agility, flexibility and performance that help customers focus on growth and innovation.

Download the Frost & Sullivan 2025 report to understand why hyperscalers, governments and enterprises trust NEXTDC to deliver the future of digital infrastructure.

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“NEXTDC has made bold, timely investments that set the pace for AI infrastructure readiness in Australia. Its strategic push into high-density computing and regional infrastructure development underscores a vision well ahead of market curves.”

- Nishchal Khorana
Associate Partner, Frost & Sullivan

Why customers colocate with us

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Nabers 5-star rating

Proactive in working towards reducing energy consumption, NEXTDC is Australia's only NABERS 5-star energy efficient data centre.
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Highest global certification standards

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Industry leading PUE levels

NEXTDC is a clearly the industry leader in Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), with sustainable free air-side cooling that reduces power consumption.
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Enhanced experience

NEXTDC's ONEDC® data centre intelligence cloud platform enables customers to get a 360-degree view their data centre utilisation, removing administrative burden.
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Low latency

NEXTDC provide a low latency promise to organisations across regional and metro areas Australia-wide. NEXTDC are committed to providing high-performing colocation services to achieve digital transformation and desired business outcomes.
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Sustainability

With NEXTDC's customer centric corporate philosophy, NEXTDC holds sustainability as one of its core values in all aspects of its business, from zero-waste requirements to 100% carbon offsets.