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Datagrid: Unlocking the Potential of New Zealand's South Island#

NZNOG 2026 digest Program Adjacent pick 26–27 March 2026

Recording

Pierre Goiffon

Play the recording: Datagrid: Unlocking the Potential of New Zealand's South Island

  • Why: A 280MW AI datacentre in Invercargill plus the Tasman Ring submarine cable project is a material signal for the NZ DC/WAN interconnect landscape — relevant market intelligence for anyone in DC networking, even if the talk itself is a roadmap.
  • What: Datagrid's vision and roadmap for the Invercargill AI DC, the role of renewable energy and climate advantages, and the international and domestic connectivity plans (Tasman Ring) needed to make the South Island a global AI infrastructure hub (from abstract only).
  • How: As a company roadmap pitch: capacity, site, and connectivity plans rather than engineering detail.
  • Where applicable: This is vision/roadmap content, not an engineering talk — value it as infrastructure and market intelligence on where new DC and submarine capacity will land, not as technique.