DXN Wins $4.1m Edge Data Centre Contract for Melbourne Airport

DXN Limited (ASX: DXN) has secured an approximately $4.1 million contract from Australia Pacific Airports Melbourne (APAM)—operator of Melbourne Airport—to supply a prefabricated Edge data centre facility.

Under the agreement, DXN will design, engineer, manufacture, factory acceptance test, deliver, install, and commission the complete facility, with site acceptance testing and commissioning scheduled towards the end of the first half of 2027.

The project, which forms part of APAM’s Airport Development Plan, Information, and Communication Technology enabling works program, will support critical digital infrastructure at one of Australia’s largest aviation and freight hubs.

DXN has separately received an approximately $1.6m variation order under its existing contract with telecommunications customer Globalstar.

Live Airport Factory Model

The Melbourne Airport facility will incorporate critical power, cooling, fire detection, and suppression systems alongside other supporting infrastructure required for the Edge data centre.

Manufacturing will take place within DXN’s manufacturing network before the completed facility is transported to Melbourne Airport for installation, site acceptance testing, and commissioning.

DXN sees airports as well-suited to Edge infrastructure because latency-sensitive and safety-critical systems increasingly require compute and network capacity close to the operations they support.

Digitisation, automation, sensing, and real-time analytics add to the demand for resilient on-site capacity.

Building and testing the facility in a controlled factory environment is intended to reduce on-site construction exposure and shorten delivery time frames, an approach DXN considers particularly useful at security-controlled locations operating continuously.

Infrastructure Track Record

The airport contract expands DXN’s Asia Pacific track record beyond government, telecommunications, and enterprise customers into aviation and transport infrastructure.

DXN has observed customers increasingly selecting factory-built facilities instead of traditional on-site construction or multi-year upgrades to existing data centres, with prefabrication allowing systems to be assembled and tested before leaving the factory and potentially compressing delivery from years into months.

The Globalstar variation reflects additional project fees and logistics costs under the telecommunications customer’s existing contract with DXN.

“Melbourne Airport is precisely the kind of Edge site where our model delivers the most value,” managing director Shalini Lagrutta said.

“Being selected by the operator of one of Australia’s largest airports is a strong endorsement of DXN’s capability to deliver complex mission-critical infrastructure for major infrastructure owners.”