Your playlist will load after this ad The facility will be built on a chunk of Makarewa farmland. Source: 1 NEWS
A $700 million facility is to be built at Makarewa, near Invercargill.
Huge amounts of digital data is produced by people scrolling social media and streaming from the likes of Netflix and TVNZ OnDemand.
Some of it could end up being stored in Southland in the country s first hyperscale data centre.
“We do believe that Invercargill is the perfect location for data centres,” says Remi Galasso, one of the men behind Datagrid.
“The whole world needs to find sources of green energy to store the data.”