Australian data centre-focused stocks gain as Microsoft and Meta forecast growth

Data centre-focused stocks in Australia gain after Microsoft MSFT.O forecast strong growth for its cloud business, and Meta META.O said it expects to spend on new data centres to boost its AI goals

Goodman Group GMG.AX, Australia's biggest-listed property developer with a significant exposure to data centres, jumps as much as 4.3%, highest since March 26

Peer DigiCo DGT.AX rises as much as 8.2%, top gainer on the benchmark ASX200 .AXJO

Data centre developer and operator NEXTDC NXT.AX gains as much as 5.8%, a 5-week high

Tech sub-index .AXIJ up ~3% vs a flat AXJO