Databricks is making a larger push into Australia and New Zealand as enterprise customers move more AI projects from pilots into production. The data and AI company announced plans to invest $300 million in the region over the next three years, following more than 85% year-over-year growth across ANZ in the first quarter.
The investment will support a new regional headquarters, broader adoption of Databricks products, and expanded AI training programs. Databricks plans to open a 22,000-square-foot office at 400 George Street in Sydney later this year, quadrupling its local footprint and adding dedicated training facilities for employees, customers, and partners.
The company said demand is rising across financial services, energy, and the public sector, with the City of Melbourne joining customers such as Airwallex, Atlassian, National Australia Bank, Telstra, and Queensland Health. Databricks is also expanding regional access to Lakebase, its serverless Postgres database built for AI agents; Genie, an AI agent that lets employees interact with data in natural language; and Agent Bricks, a platform for building and governing AI agents on enterprise data.
Adam Beavis, Vice President and Country Manager for Databricks ANZ, said organizations in the region are moving beyond AI experimentation toward production use cases. “Our US$300 million investment reflects the pace of adoption and our long-term commitment to the region,” Beavis said.
Databricks also plans to train 100,000 learners across ANZ over the next five years through bootcamps, hackathons, customer enablement programs, and learning events. The company said the effort aligns with Australia’s National AI Plan and includes a Databricks for Business program aimed at helping non-technical users work with data through Genie.