CDC Data Centres: Hume Campus Five

Hume Campus Five (HU5) is the latest hyperscale development within CDC Data Centres’ sovereign data centre ecosystem in Canberra’s Hume district, Australian Capital Territory (ACT). Building upon the success of its earlier Hume campuses, HU5 is engineered to deliver even greater capacity, efficiency, and security for Australia’s most mission-critical workloads.

Located within Canberra’s premier technology and government corridor, HU5 provides highly secure colocation and cloud infrastructure for federal agencies, defence operations, hyperscale cloud providers, and major enterprises. The facility reflects CDC’s commitment to sustainable, sovereign data infrastructure designed to support Australia’s growing digital and national security needs.

⚙️ Facility Highlights

• Designed to Tier III+ standards, ensuring concurrent maintainability and high fault tolerance across all systems.
• Developed as part of the broader CDC Hume campus, with total campus capacity exceeding 50 MW of IT load, scalable to meet national demand.
• Fully redundant 2N electrical infrastructure, with dual utility feeds and backup generation for continuous uptime.
• Advanced N+1 mechanical cooling systems with energy-efficient controls, precision air management, and optimized airflow.
• Constructed with modular data hall design, enabling flexible capacity expansion and rapid deployment.
• Designed to achieve a low Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) target, supporting CDC’s carbon reduction and energy efficiency goals.

Integrates advanced monitoring systems for predictive maintenance and energy optimization, ensuring top-tier operational performance.

🔐 Security & Compliance

• 24/7 on-site security operations, manned entry points, and multi-layer perimeter defense including fencing, vehicle barriers, and surveillance.
• Equipped with biometric access control, CCTV coverage, and dual-factor authentication for all restricted zones.
• Meets strict Australian Government and Defence security standards, including suitability for PROTECTED and classified workloads.
• Operated under internationally recognized standards such as ISO 27001 (Information Security), ISO 50001 (Energy Management), and ISO 14001 (Environmental Management).
• Supports compliance with the Defence Industry Security Program (DISP) and ACSC Essential Eight frameworks for sovereign resilience.

Built to CDC’s “defence-in-depth” approach — combining physical, digital, and procedural controls to ensure total operational assurance.

🌐 Connectivity & Carrier Access

• Carrier-neutral facility with multiple diverse fibre-entry paths connecting to national and intercapital networks.
• Provides private cross-connects, cloud on-ramps, and inter-site links across CDC’s Canberra and Sydney campuses.
• Offers low-latency connectivity to public-sector and hyperscale clients operating within the region.
• Designed to enable hybrid-cloud and multi-region architectures, supporting secure, flexible interconnection between private and public networks.
• Supports sovereign cloud deployments and direct integration with Australian Government secure network services.

💼 Who It Serves

• Federal Government and Defence clients requiring sovereign, highly secure hosting within the Australian Capital Territory.
• Hyperscale cloud providers deploying large-scale compute and AI infrastructure within secure, energy-efficient environments.
• Enterprises and critical infrastructure operators seeking compliant, resilient colocation with access to sovereign cloud platforms.
• Telecommunication providers and ISPs extending regional backbone and carrier presence across Canberra.
• Disaster recovery and continuity users requiring low-latency redundancy between ACT and Sydney-based facilities.