Equipment manufacturer · Community-friendly data centres

ABOUT SERENE DC

Establishing a Clean, Sovereign Foundation for Tech Scaling.

The equipment manufacturer behind the community-friendly data centre. Geopolymer housings, cast in regional factories, silent at the boundary — deployed in months by the development partners who build the sites.

Our Mission

Serene DC was founded to solve the dual bottlenecks currently strangling the digital infrastructure sector: resource constraints and community friction. We believe that computational scale should not come at the expense of regional ecosystems. By redesigning the physical form factor of high-density data housing, we build infrastructure that communities welcome and hyperscalers can rapidly deploy.

Corporate Structure

Serene DC Pty Ltd is a fully corporate, outright-owned tech manufacturing subsidiary of APAC RE Pty Ltd, founded by Craig Balmanno, an Australian clean energy industry veteran and recipient of the Young Australian of the Year award. This provides robust corporate governance, clear liability isolation, and a streamlined capital flow framework built to scale from the APAC region to the USA and EMEA.

  • Manufacturing Focus: Serene DC handles the precision engineering, geopolymer fabrication, and modular tech assembly of our physical infrastructure housings.
  • Infrastructure Asset Models: Our commercial architecture operates under clean framework layouts where infrastructure housings are supplied through automated B2B portal frameworks.

Rebuilding Social Licence

For next-generation computing to flourish, the technology sector must rebuild its image within host communities. Serene DC leads this shift by treating social licence as a core engineering parameter. From minimal-water closed cooling systems to dark-sky shielded low-profile integration, we ensure that every node we manufacture acts as a high-value civic resource and a quiet regional partner.

COMMUNITY CHARTER

The new standard for data centres in communities

Serene DC builds data centres designed to earn their place in the towns that host them. Most facilities ask a community to tolerate them. We hold ourselves to a higher standard — this Charter records the commitments every facility built with Serene DC housings has to its host community.

OUR COMMITMENTS

Silent at the boundary. Our low-profile facilities are engineered so sound travels up, not out. Vegetated earth berms absorb what little noise exists — you can stand at the boundary fence and hear the bush, not the building.

Virtually invisible. From ground level our facilities read as landscaped earthworks, not industrial plant. No glow, no glare, no looming shed on the horizon.

Minimal water. Hybrid dry and adiabatic cooling with closed-loop circulation keeps water use to a fraction of conventional data centres — and every drop is accounted for.

No routine on-site combustion. Grid-connected with battery storage, our sites don’t run diesel generation as a matter of routine.

Built by the region, for the region. Housings are cast in regional factories — local materials, local jobs, local supply chains.

A pavilion, not a fence. Every Serene DC facility opens with a community pavilion: classes, meetings, access to AI, a café, bathrooms. The facility’s team works from the Service Area behind the pavilion — the people who run the site are present in the community’s space, not hidden behind a berm.

OUR DOOR STAYS OPEN

Every Serene DC facility is delivered by a development partner — RTB Capital Projects or the client’s contractor — who maintains the site’s community liaison and complaints channel. Open days run before and after energisation. If a site falls short of any commitment in this Charter, there is a direct line to the people responsible — and the commitment stands, whoever holds the developer role.

Compute should be useful, not disturbing. Here to help communities, not hurt them.

Contact: register@serenedc.io · serenedc.io

Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy — Serenedc Pty Ltd (ABN 43 703 684 299) We collect personal information you give us: contact details via forms and correspondence; account details for the B2B client portal; and documents you upload for account verification (including evidence of compute sourcing). We use it to operate your account, verify eligibility, communicate with you, and meet legal obligations. We do not sell personal information. Information is stored with our service providers (hosting, email, accounting) and may be handled offshore by them. You may request access, correction, or deletion of your information at any time by emailing register@serenedc.io . We retain records only as long as needed for the purpose collected or as required by law. Complaints: contact us first; you may also complain to the OAIC (oaic.gov.au). Last updated 5/11/26.

Collection notice

Your information: The details and documents you submit are collected by Serenedc Pty Ltd (ABN 43 703 684 299) to verify your account and assess compute eligibility. They’re used only for that purpose, stored securely, and never on-sold. You can request access, correction or deletion any time: register@serenedc.io

Information gathered is STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL