At a glance
Data Vault, a privately owned New Zealand data centre operator, plans a 3MW data centre on Auckland's North Shore, with the first stage due in the second half of 2027.
Eleven network companies, including Megaport, EonFibre and Devoli, are confirmed as launch partners before the fit-out starts in 2027.
Nine of the 11 are already listed as networks inside Data Vault's Grafton data centre on PeeringDB, the public register of where networks connect.
The North Shore site is the largest of four Data Vault projects, which together add 5.3MW across Auckland, Hamilton and Wellington.
At Grafton, Data Hall 3 is fully contracted, and Data Vault has secured an international anchor tenant for Data Hall 4, due in early 2027.
Data Vault, a New Zealand owned data centre operator in business since 2004, plans a 3MW data centre on Auckland's North Shore, Reseller News reported on 20 October 2026. The company has secured the building and will start the fit-out in 2027. The first stage is due to run in the second half of that year, with more capacity added as customers sign.
"We're not building a facility and then hoping the network providers turn up," general manager Peter White said. "We've already confirmed 11 launch partners, with more to come."
Nine of those 11 partners are already listed as networks inside Data Vault's Grafton data centre on PeeringDB, the public register where networks record the buildings they connect in. So most of the North Shore launch partners are networks Data Vault already hosts at Grafton, on our reading of that register.
Data Vault has named 5.3MW across four projects
The North Shore build is part of a programme targeting about 6MW of extra capacity across Auckland, Hamilton and Wellington over the coming years. Data Vault has identified four projects so far, w.media reported.
Site | Added capacity | Status |
|---|---|---|
North Shore, Auckland | 3MW | New site, building secured, fit-out from 2027 |
Grafton, Auckland | 1MW | Existing data centre |
Te Rapa, Hamilton | 1MW | Existing data centre |
Lambton Quay, Wellington | About 300kW | Run under a management agreement with Vital, agreed in October 2025 |
Source: Data Vault, as reported by w.media on 19 October 2026 and by Reseller News and DataCenterNews on 20 October 2026.
New Zealand runs about 208MW of colocation across 36 facilities, on market researcher Arizton's June 2026 count in our guide to who runs the country's data centres. Colocation is renting space, power and cooling in a data centre for a customer's own servers. Data Vault's four projects would add capacity equal to about 2.5 per cent of that total. CDC's Hobsonville Campus Two alone runs 54MW, and CDC runs 98MW across its three Auckland data centres.
"We've seen significant demand from network operators, cloud providers and international technology companies looking for high-quality colocation in New Zealand," White said. Grafton's Data Hall 3 is fully contracted. Data Hall 4 is backed by an international anchor tenant and due in the first quarter of 2027, with Data Hall 5 to follow in the third quarter, w.media reported.
White called the North Shore development "the next logical step", giving customers "another Auckland location and greater geographic diversity."
Grafton's standard racks draw 7kW
A rack is the cabinet that holds a customer's servers, and its rating in kilowatts is the power it can draw. "Not every customer needs 50kW or 100kW per rack," White said, in remarks carried by Reseller News. "There's a significant market for reliable, well-connected mid-density rack space, and that's where we see a real opportunity."
Grafton's standard racks are 7kW, with 15kW three-phase racks on request, according to Data Vault's PeeringDB listing. "We're not trying to be the biggest data centre operator in New Zealand. Our focus is on building highly connected, efficient and reliable facilities," White said in the announcement.
Data Vault reports a power usage effectiveness of 1.14 for Grafton and Hamilton on its website, and about 1.55 for Wellington. Power usage effectiveness is a data centre's total power draw divided by the power its IT equipment uses, so 1.14 means 14 per cent on top for cooling and other overheads. Grafton and Hamilton carry rooftop solar, and Data Vault plans more panels, including at North Shore.
Data Vault is also nearing the end of a SOC 2 readiness programme across its sites, according to all three reports. SOC 2 is an independent audit of how a provider protects customer data.
Data Vault named 11 launch partners
The partners are EonFibre, Devoli, EdgeIX, Verge Infrastructure, WaveSquared, Hostperl, Vetta Group, Mercury, PureLink, Vital and Megaport. Together they will provide fibre networks, internet services, internet exchanges and cloud connectivity, according to w.media.
EdgeIX runs internet exchanges, where networks swap traffic directly with each other. Megaport sells on-demand links into the large cloud platforms. EonFibre is the fibre business One New Zealand set up in 2024, which launched Zone Direct for data centres on 12 October. WaveSquared, formerly Titan Telecoms, lists a 2,300km trans-Tasman cable system among its networks on its website. Vital is the Wellington network company whose Lambton Quay data centre Data Vault agreed to take over running in October 2025.
Grafton is "approaching 70 autonomous system numbers", w.media reported. An autonomous system number is the identity a network uses on the internet, so the count is a rough tally of the networks present. PeeringDB lists 62 networks at Grafton, 19 at Hamilton and two at Wellington.
Data Vault Limited has no parent company, according to the Companies Office register. Its four shareholders are the holding companies of directors Karim Hussona and Paul Carter, director David Spicer and The Taumata Trust. Hussona and Carter have been directors since the company was registered on 30 August 2004.
Six other operators have data centres on the North Shore
NBR reported that the new site is in Rosedale. The wider North Shore holds DCI Data Centers' AKL02 in Albany, designed for 40MW, according to our survey of the New Zealand build.
Datacom, 2degrees, Umbrellar, Plan B and One New Zealand also list North Shore data centres on PeeringDB, without capacity figures. CDC's campuses sit at Silverdale, north of the North Shore, and at Hobsonville in the north-west, among the facilities in our list of every New Zealand operator and site.
What to watch
The consents. An Auckland Council resource or building consent for the fit-out would confirm the site and the size of the work.
Grafton's Data Hall 4. The hall is due in the first quarter of 2027 with its international anchor tenant, the earliest date Data Vault has given.
The North Shore first stage. It is due in the second half of 2027, with more capacity to follow as customers sign.
The remaining 0.7MW. The four named projects add 5.3MW against a target of about 6MW, so further projects are still to be named.
Wellington's upgrade. Data Vault plans about 300kW more at Lambton Quay, and its website lists a modernisation programme to upgrade the site to Tier III standard.