For Hyperscalers & Neo Cloud Platforms Launching in Australia

The AI Ready Checklist is designed to complement your existing evaluation frameworks as you assess data centre partners and infrastructure readiness for AI and cloud expansion in Australia.

Whether you're a global hyperscaler or an emerging Neo Cloud provider, this guide helps validate that your deployment environment is equipped for high-performance AI workloads, meets critical compliance obligations, and aligns with your long-term growth strategy.

From AI-ready infrastructure to interconnectivity, sovereignty, and sustainability, the AI Ready Checklist is your quick-reference tool for identifying the essentials that will enable fast, secure, and scalable launches across Australia and the wider Asia-Pacific region - and prepare your platform for the ultra-high-density future of AI workloads.

Use this checklist during partner evaluations, RFPs, or site selection to ensure your infrastructure is built for where AI thrives.

1. AI-Ready Infrastructure

• NVIDIA DGXfacilities designed to meet the unique demands of AI Factory infrastructure.

• Supports high-density racks (up to 600kW per rack)?
• Offers liquid cooling options (rear-door heat exchangers, direct-to-chip, immersion)?
• Provides modular power provisioning and thermal zoning for efficient scaling?
• Enables custom-built or design-to-suit data halls tailored to GPU platforms?
• Supports multi-megawatt deployments with future-proof capacity?
• Equipped with multiple Points of Entry (POEs) for diverse fibre and power routes?

2. Interconnectivity & Network Performance

• Provides interconnect speeds up to 100Gbps for ultra-low latency workloads?
• Direct access to all major cloud on-ramps (AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle)?
• Proximity to international subsea cable landing stations for regional and global routing?
• Built to support federated AI models and distributed GPU clusters?

3. Security, Compliance & Sovereignty

• Uptime Institute Tier IV certified data centre with 100% Uptime SLA commitment?
• Certified for ISO, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, IRAP, and defence-grade requirements?
• Implements zero-trust architecture, biometric security, and multi-layered access controls?
• Delivers full data sovereignty and residency under Australian law?
• Complies with the Australian Privacy Act and Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) Scheme?
• Approved as a Tier 1 country by the US government for NVIDIA chip supply chain distribution?

4. Location, Market Access & Sustainability

• Strategically located across Australia's capital cities including Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Darwin - to deliver national reach and low-latency coverage?
• Serves as a gateway to Southeast Asia, with proximity to Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and key subsea cable routes for regional connectivity?
• Positioned for scalable growth across metro, regional, and edge locations, with direct access to subsea infrastructure and cloud on-ramps?
• Operates edge data centres in high-growth regional areas such as the Sunshine Coast, supporting emerging tech corridors, decentralised AI workloads, and smart city infrastructure?
• Supports enterprise and hyperscaler ESG goals through auditable sustainability programs, real-time energy metering, and alignment with global reporting frameworks?

5. Ecosystem & Support

• Enables direct, secure interconnection with industry-leading organisations - including financial services, government, healthcare, mining, and enterprise co-located within the data centre ecosystem.
• Embedded in a rich ecosystem (finance, government, healthcare, mining, enterprise)?
• Offers carrier- and cloud-neutral connectivity options?
• Backed by local support teams for real-time provisioning?
• Access to AI infrastructure specialists for deployment, tuning, and optimisation?

Next Step: Design Your AI-Ready Future

NEXTDC is Australia's strategic digital infrastructure partner - the place where the cloud lives and AI thrives.

Our facilities are NVIDIA DGX-certified, purpose-built to support high-density, GPU-intensive workloads with advanced liquid cooling, multi-megawatt scalability, and direct cloud on-ramp access. Whether you're launching a new platform or scaling an AI-powered service, we help you deploy faster, scale smarter, and stay in control.

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