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Microsoft Azure New Zealand North Region
Microsoft · Auckland
New Zealand's first hyperscale cloud region: three data centres, or availability zones, on Auckland's North Shore. The first opened at the end of 2024, with anchor customers including Fonterra, ASB, BNZ and ACC. Microsoft does not disclose what the region cost. Exact sites are not publicly specified.
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Delivered
This project is complete.
Data current as at 16 Sept 2026, when the pipeline was last checked against its source.
Key facts
- Region
- Auckland
- Sector
- Telecom
- Status
- Complete
- Estimated value
- Value TBC
- Indicative completion
- 2024
- Funding status
- Fully Funded
- Lead organisation
- Microsoft
- Election risk
- Safe
Election risk assessment
Privately funded foreign direct investment; proceeds independently of the election. Bipartisan support for digital infrastructure.
Government priority alignment
HIGH: National-scale digital infrastructure, NZ's first hyperscale cloud region.
Recent changes
- 2026-W37Major New project added: Microsoft Azure New Zealand North Region (Complete, value TBC).
Chronology
- 2020Microsoft announces plans for a New Zealand data centre region
- 2022Overseas Investment Office consent to buy 6.5ha on the North Shore (~NZ$180m land)
- 2024First hyperscale data centre opens; customer workloads begin migrating to the NZ region