CDC Data Centres: Hume Campus Three

Hume Campus Three (HU3) is part of CDC Data Centres’ large-scale Hume campus in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). Located in the Hume industrial precinct of Canberra, this facility represents the third phase of CDC’s Canberra expansion and forms part of one of the most secure and advanced data centre ecosystems in Australia.

The Hume campus was developed to meet the growing demand from government, defence, hyperscale, and enterprise sectors for sovereign, high-availability digital infrastructure. HU3 continues this legacy, providing mission-critical hosting, colocation, and interconnection services within a purpose-built, highly secure, and resilient environment.

⚙️ Facility Highlights

• Built to Tier III+ equivalent standards, providing concurrent maintainability and fault-tolerant infrastructure for mission-critical workloads.
• Designed with a total campus capacity exceeding 20 MW of critical IT load, distributed across multiple buildings.
• Fully redundant power delivery through dual power feeds, UPS systems, and backup diesel generators.
• Advanced cooling systems with N+1 configuration for high energy efficiency and reliability.
• Carrier-neutral design enabling diverse connectivity and flexible network architecture.
• Engineered for high scalability, allowing customers to expand capacity seamlessly as their data and power requirements grow.

🔐 Security & Compliance

• 24/7 on-site security personnel, CCTV surveillance, and multi-layer access control systems including biometric and card-based authentication.
• Designed to meet Australian Government security and sovereignty standards, supporting workloads with strict compliance and regulatory requirements.
• Built for enterprise-grade resilience with N+1 and 2N redundancy across all critical systems.
• Operates under rigorous environmental and information security frameworks such as ISO 27001, ISO 50001, and ISO 14001.
• Integrates real-time monitoring and automated infrastructure management for proactive operational control.

🌐 Connectivity & Carrier Access

• Carrier-neutral facility offering access to multiple national and regional telecommunications providers.
• Direct connections to major fibre networks and backbone routes servicing Canberra and other major Australian metros.
• Supports private cross-connects, cloud on-ramps, and inter-site connectivity within CDC’s national campus network.
• Low-latency connectivity to CDC’s other Canberra and Sydney campuses for multi-region deployments.
• Enables hybrid-cloud, private-cloud, and enterprise network integration through flexible peering options.

💼 Who It Serves

• Australian Government agencies and defence clients requiring secure, sovereign data-hosting within the ACT.
• Hyperscale cloud and enterprise providers expanding their Australian infrastructure footprint.
• Telecommunications carriers and ISPs establishing regional interconnect points and backbone capacity.
• Enterprises and critical-infrastructure providers seeking high-availability colocation and disaster-recovery solutions.
• Managed service providers delivering cloud, cybersecurity, and hosting services to Canberra-based clients.