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A$2.9 billion New Senior Debt Facilities

Debt Facility

  • Nov 4, 2024
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Change of Director's Interest Notice

Change of Director’s Interest Notice

  • Oct 24, 2024
  • 2 pages

Notification of cessation of securities - NXT

Appendix 3H (Notification of cessation of securities)

  • Oct 24, 2024
  • 4 pages

Application for quotation of securities - NXT

Appendix 2A (Application for Quotation of Securities)

  • Oct 24, 2024
  • 7 pages

Application for quotation of securities - NXT

Appendix 2A (Application for Quotation of Securities)

  • Oct 24, 2024
  • 7 pages

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This Month

NextDC CEO Craig Scroggie (r) talks to AFR technology editor Paul Smith in Sydney.

Nuclear ban holds Australia back from data centre opportunity

Craig Scroggie says without a ‘logical conversation’ on nuclear, Australia may miss an opportunity to grab an outsized chunk of the booming data centre industry.

  • Angela Macdonald-Smith
Joe Bartolo, founder and CEO of civil construction and heavy equipment hire group Symal.

From one wheelbarrow and a ute to a $437m ASX listing

Symal Group founder Joe Bartolo started from humble beginnings in 2001 to build his construction group into a large enough player to float on the exchange this year.

  • Simon Evans

October

The Macquarie Park Data Centre in Sydney.

Big banks fund Macquarie Technology bid to cash in on AirTrunk effect

The funding agreement came as new research showed investment in data centres was expected to hit $26 billion by 2030 amid booming demand from technology giants.

  • Paul Smith

September

Craig Scroggie, Chief executive of NextDC hopes to raise $750 million to fuel the data centre company’s expansion into Asia.

NextDC raises $750m for Asia land grab, racing AirTrunk

NextDC is cashing in on investors’ exuberance for data centres, raising $750 million to ride the euphoric mood set by its rival AirTrunk’s $24 billion deal.

  • Tess Bennett
NextDC chief executive Craig Scroggie.

UBS, Morgan Stanley on the ticket for NextDC’s $550m placement

Funds will be raised for the data centre operator at a fixed price of $17.15 per share, representing a 3.9 per cent discount to the last close.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
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AirTrunk’s deals have been themed around Star Wars, with the company’s chief financial officer a fan of the sci-fi series.

Inside Project Amidala: AirTrunk’s $24b deal

Four years ago, Blackstone missed its chance to buy up the data centre giant. It wasn’t about to make the same mistake twice, even if it cost $24 billion.

  • Anthony Macdonald
Robin Khuda says AirTrunk has “always been ahead of the game”.

Khuda sets $100b valuation target for AirTrunk’s next trick

Billionaire Robin Khuda has praised his own foresight in investing in data centres tailor-made for tech giants after creating a $24 billion business in less than a decade.

  • Paul Smith and Tess Bennett
AirTrunk founder Robin Khuda founded AirTrunk less than a decade ago.

AirTrunk’s $23.5b AI pay day

Blackstone emerged as the winning bidder in the year’s biggest merger and acquisition deal, netting its founder Robin Khuda a $1 billion-plus payday.

  • Paul Smith and Anthony Macdonald
Robin Khuda arrived in Australia as an 18-year-old from Bangladesh, and is now at the centre of the year’s biggest deal.

Robin Khuda is the ringleader of this year’s biggest M&A deal

The founder of AirTrunk has cashed in on the inexorable rise in demand for processing power and built a vast fortune on the rise of cloud computing.

  • Paul Smith and Tess Bennett

August

NextDC chief Craig Scroggie.

No sweetener for NextDC in AirTrunk’s $20b auction

The CEO of data centre group NextDC, Craig Scroggie, doesn’t expect AirTrunk’s sale to influence the way his company is valued by the sharemarket.

  • Tess Bennett

July

Former resources minister Keith Pitt.

Roaring Keith! Ex-mining minister buys booming coal stocks

Australian mining stocks are ripping, and former LNP federal resources minister Keith Pitt has added three mines to his investment properties.

  • Mark Di Stefano

May

The Google Cloud data centre in Germany relies on AI chips inside its servers to help provide co-piloting programs to humans.

Nuclear, data centres are in a sweet spot for investors

Analysts are scouring sharemarkets for ways to profit from the rush of money into the data centres that will support the rise of AI.

  • Tom Richardson
Dennison Hambling, the MD of Intelligent Monitoring Group, says Australia has become uncompetitive and is being strangled by compliance rules. A cut in corporate tax rates would free up capital for extra investment.

CEOs to Labor: Cut taxes and tech investment will ramp up

Dennison Hambling of security monitoring company IMG says Australia is five to 10 years behind other countries and a corporate tax rate cut would free up capital to make bolder investments.

  • Simon Evans and Tess Bennett
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Bevan Slattery

Rich Lister entrepreneur’s final start-up will build underwater robots

Bevan Slattery is arguably Australia’s most successful tech entrepreneurs of the last 20 years. He thinks he has one more start-up in him, and has big plans for reviving coral reefs.

  • Tess Bennett
Tribeca’s Jun Bei Liu.

These stocks are primed for ‘tectonic-sized’ tailwinds

The magnificent seven are not the only way to play artificial intelligence, there’s money to be made in storage, energy and software on the ASX too.

  • Jun Bei Liu
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Macquarie Capital’s Asia Pacific boss Tim Joyce.

Macquarie’s Tim Joyce puts annual conference to good use

There’s nothing like the annual Macquarie Australia conference to drive home the synergies available to the full-service investment bank.

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  • Myriam Robin
David Tudehope, co founder of Macquarie Technology Group.

Macquarie Technology founders cash out; E&P Capital on trade

Stockbroker Evans and Partners crossed two lines of stock in the ASX-listed data centre operator after-market on Monday.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

April

 Data centres – which provide computing power and storage for software and data – are “one of the most significant drivers for demand growth besides electrification and the take-up of electric vehicles”.

Booming AI demand threatens electricity supply

Regulators are scrambling to factor the explosive growth of data centres into demand projections as one network warns of a 250 per cent surge in power needs.

  • Ben Potter

NextDC boss says nuclear should be on table as AI sucks up energy

The country’s largest listed developer and operator of data centres is raising $1.3 billion to expand its operations amid a boom in demand for computing power.

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  • Tess Bennett
Jerome Powell, the head of the US Federal Reserve, had been hopeful that higher inflation readings were mere “bumps”.

Inflation’s three warnings; NextDC’s $1.3b raise; RBA cuts in doubt

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