The Tasmania’s premier recently announced his government’s plans of creating a strategy that will attract data centers with managed hosting to the state in order to create more jobs.
According to Premier David Bartlett in a statement released to the press, data centers and the so-called server farms will pave the way towards the creation of new industries which will also open more jobs in the next decade. He adds that Tasmania has already been successful in establishing a call center industry which has produced more than 5000 jobs through the same strategy.
The said data center strategy is going to identify and highlight all the benefits of hosting data centers in Tasmania. It will also create policies that will support other innovative industries which could also come up due to the growth of data centers in the state. The strategy will also address the barriers and setbacks to setting up facilities in the region.
The National Broadband Network current roll out is going to be a drawcard for various companies that are looking to create data centers in the state, says Bartlett. He adds that the high speed optic fiber along with the state’s abundance of renewable energy and its secure environment will make it an ideal place for putting up data centers.
The government also plans to use its data center requirements to leverage on the strategy. These requirements underwent review back in 2007 as the Systems Branch opted to reconsider the IT Infrastructure Strategic plan. The revision was introduced in order to create strategies for provisioning IT infrastructure such as networks, servers, storage and desktops along with services like disaster recovey.