"There's still a number of ISPs over there and we haven't had at Vocus as large a focus in Perth, so this gives us a way to enter the market with a data centre that has a lot of our key customers and potential customers in it."

The Perth iX facility currently caters co-location services to 86 customers, some of which are already signed with Vocus for fibre wholesale services. The company would look to sell the same fibre services to new customers but remained carrier-agnostic.

However, while growing, Spenceley said Perth was still too small a market for the company to consider building its own centre in the city.

"We evaluate both options," he said. "Building a new facility [in Perth] wasn't our preferred option.

"Having said that, there might be other areas where building might make sense for us."