Prime Minister visits Macquarie Park, heralds companies

Prime Minister Scott Morrison visited Macquarie Park innovation district today, Friday 25 March, to open a cutting-edge technology facility on Talavera Road.

He cut the ribbon at Macquarie Telecom's new Intellicentre 3 East, a new 10MW data centre which specialises in higher security standards and cybersecurity clearance.

Macquarie Telecom CEO David Tudehope welcomed the Prime Minister and a crowd of dignitaries, declaring:

"The cloud is not in the sky, it's here, safe in Macquarie Park."

"42% of Federal Government data goes through Macquarie Telecom because of our emphasis on security."

Picking up on the theme of security, the Prime Minister paid tribute to the "savvy technicians, scientists and engineers" who come out of Australian universities and keep high tech facilities like ICE3 East running;

"We see that in the most terrible events, whether it's in Ukraine or the stresses that are being placed on our own country here in the Indo-Pacific, when it comes to your data security you've got to be dealing with someone you trust and so words like sovereign really mean something, words like secure really mean something."

The Prime Minister highlighted the MedTech, BioTech and digital companies who call Macquarie Park innovation district home, sharing that he was pleased to be visiting again. He recently toured AstraZeneca's vaccine research laboratories, also on Talavera Road.

Intellicentre 3 East is the second of three centres planned for Macquarie Telecom's data campus, with a total capacity of 50MW in the pipeline. Tudehope lately shared plans to also build a cybersecurity centre of excellence, to bridge knowledge gaps in the cyber security industry.