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Anyone with a shed, an extension cord, a couple of GPUs and an overdraft is building datacenters. Fujitsu just offloaded five

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Fujitsu announced the sale of five of its Australian datacenters to private equity firm Next Capital for a reported AUD$200 million.

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off-prem 'Digital transformation' is a better bet, apparently, so private equity gets a turn The advent of generative AI spurred an enormous and controversial datacenter building boom that has seen almost anyone who knows how to run a bit barn try to expand their business ASAP. Fujitsu, however, wants out. The Australian outpost of the Japanese giant's business this week announc ed the sale of five datacenters down under. The company said selling the bit barns "enables us to further invest in the technology services where customer demand is growing fastest." In Australia, that apparently means "helping organisations modernise critical systems, strengthen cyber resilience, adopt sovereign AI, and access the high-performance and quantum computing capabilities needed for their next phase of transformation." Fujitsu said its datacenter business "is a strong platform, and its next phase will benefit from dedicated commercial ownership and investment." That new owner, private equity outfit Next Capital, may have its work cut out for it because some of the bit barns it bought appeared to be rather modest. Fujitsu's manife st of its Australian properties lists one facility capable of hosting 92MW worth of kit, another with 28MW capacity, plus a 10MW, 4.8MW, 3MW, and 2MW. Keen-eyed readers will have noticed that the paragraph above mentions six datacenters and that earlier in this...

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Event
Asset sale

What this signalsSelling part of the business often leads to a new focus and new budgets.

Location
Australia

Companies

  • Next CapitalAcquirernextcapital.com.au

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Amount (USD)
$200M

Details

Assets
Datacenters

Topics and mentions

Asset tags

  • it

Extraction

Confidence
95%
Detected
Jul 22, 2026
signal_type
news
signal_subtype
sells_assets_to

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