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NEXTDC Wins Frost & Sullivan’s 2024 Best Practices Transformational Innovation Leadership Award

Written by NEXTDC. | Mar 3, 2025 12:44:53 AM

NEXTDC’s energy efficiency innovation sets the standard for managing power costs and infrastructure complexities associated with scaling to an AI-enabled future

NEXTDC is proud to be recognised as the recipient of Frost & Sullivan’s 2024 Best Practices Transformational Innovation Leadership Award for the Asia-Pacific data centre infrastructure and operations industry. This prestigious accolade highlights our commitment to innovation, sustainability, and customer-centric solutions.

It reinforces our regional leadership in delivering digital infrastructure excellence that supports customer objectives for operational certainty and future readiness data centres and interconnectivity services that are engineered for strategic flexibility and agility.

 

Setting the Standard in Data Centre Innovation

Frost & Sullivan’s acknowledgement underscores the relentless focus we place on delivering world-class digital infrastructure designed to support the evolving needs of hyperscale, enterprise, and government customers. With a vision to enable next-generation artificial intelligence (AI), cloud, and high-performance computing, NEXTDC is setting new benchmarks in operational resilience, sustainability, security and interconnection.

 

Pioneering AI-Optimised Infrastructure

As AI adoption accelerates, we pride ourselves on being at the forefront of high-density, energy-efficient data centre design. Our national footprint of 17 operational data centres in every Australian mainland capital city, is engineered to support cutting-edge AI workloads with:

  • High-density power of up to 130 kW per rack
  • Advanced liquid cooling technologies for enhanced efficiency
  • Ultra-low latency interconnection to a vast digital ecosystem
  • Certification under the NVIDIA DGX-Ready AI program

These capabilities empower hyperscale, enterprise and government organisations to seamlessly deploy AI-driven infrastructure, ensuring agility, scalability, and efficiency in next generation data processing.

 

Sustainability at the Core

As the only data centre operator in Australia with Climate Active-certified carbon neutrality for our administrative function, NEXTDC remains committed to sustainable growth and innovation.

We also offer customers the ability to leverage carbon neutral services through our NEXTneutral carbon offsets which are also certified under the Commonwealth Government’s Climate Active program.

Through advanced cooling strategies, renewable energy investments, and our NEXTneutral, we work collaboratively with customers to minimise environmental impact without compromise to certified Gold standard operational practices. As a result of this commitment to sustainmable digital acceleration, our energy efficiency leadership translates directly to cost savings for customers through reduced power bills.

 

Driving Digital Transformation with Seamless Connectivity

With 10 public cloud zones, 15 direct cloud on-ramps and over 750 ICT partners, our data centre platform fosters a highly interconnected ecosystem that enables organisations to scale their hybrid cloud architectures with enhanced security and network efficiency. Frost & Sullivan highlighted that our proprietary AXON interconnection platform further simplifies multi-cloud connectivity, ensuring enterprises stay ahead in an increasingly digital economy.

 

Future-Ready Digital Infrastructure

Recognising the growing demand for high-performance computing, we have been applauded by Frost & Sullivan for continuing to advance mechanical and electrical designs in support of today’s and tomorrow’s liquid-to-compute solutions. This ensures optimal efficiency for emerging AI, cloud, and machine learning applications. Frost also paid tribute to our innovative Mission-Critical Operations (MCX) spaces for customers which further reinforce business continuity and resilience, catering to the accelerating essential nature of data and digital systems.

 

A Testament to Excellence

Frost & Sullivan’s award acknowledges NEXTDC’s dedication to transformational innovation. Its award citation identifies that we have solidified our position as a leader in future-proofing digital infrastructure including an unmatched and unconditional 100% uptime guarantee for power delivery. As organisations navigate the complexities of AI, cloud, and digital transformation, we are determined to remain the trusted partner for core infrastructure which empowers them to anticipate and adapt to an unknown future while accelerating strategic advantage for growth and innovation.

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Why It Matters?
Industry-leading innovation in hyperscale & colocation
Proven operational excellence & sustainability leadership
Best-in-class interconnectivity & AI-ready infrastructure