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ANZ Compute Atlas

Australia and New Zealand’s
compute in perspective.

Building the authoritative view on Australia and New Zealand’s compute landscape, bringing data centres, capacity and development evidence into one place.

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Open research · source linkedRelease 0.9.0 · 2026-11-03

THE CAPACITY PICTURE

Follow the capacity.

National market context, documented sites and the development pipeline.

Australia · DOCUMENTED OPERATING CAPACITY

≈ 1,096 MW

Operating computing power supported by site and operator disclosures.

696.95 MW allocated to named sites + 399.05 MW disclosed at portfolio level.

Sites already included in a portfolio are counted once. Observations retain their own dates; this is not a complete national census.

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Australia · published national benchmark

≈ 1.5 GW

National operational capacity

≈ 1,500 MW IT · 31 March 2026

162 centres · Operational data centres in source inventory

Data Centres Australia and DC Byte estimate Australia had about 1.5 GW of operational IT capacity across 162 data centres at 31 March 2026. This provides a national market benchmark alongside the Atlas’s partial site-level evidence.

The national estimate is a separate benchmark. It is not added to the documented capacity above, whose coverage and observation dates differ.

Definition and scope

Operational capacity is the IT load supported by fitted-out halls available for use, not necessarily utilised capacity or live electricity demand. This rounded industry estimate has its own inventory and date. It is not an independently reconciled Atlas facility total and is never added to site subtotals or assigned to map pins.

Data Centres Australia and DC Byte source ↗ · ABC News source ↗ · Compare the measures →

DOCUMENTED CAPACITY · SELECTED SITES

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Partial capacity subtotals across the selected sites. Figures cover the selected records. 212 sites have no comparable power disclosure. Built capacity is not utilisation or available supply. Operating capacity & market context → Read the methodology → · Coverage & research gaps → · Wider pipeline & source reconciliation → Portfolio disclosures can exceed the amount allocated to named sites here. See NEXTDC’s reconciliation →

What do these megawatts actually mean?

MW measures electrical power. Here it means power available to servers, GPUs, storage and networking equipment, excluding cooling and other building overheads. The industry calls this “IT power”, short for information technology. It does not tell you how many GPUs are installed, how fast they are, how much power is being used, or how much capacity is available to buy. Planned figures include proposed and approved design envelopes, including expressly labelled ceilings. They are not a delivery forecast. Grid connections, building power and MVA are shown separately in the pipeline evidence.

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356 records across 267 sites · 101 operators

DOCUMENTED SITE CONTRIBUTIONS

Under construction subtotal: 602.3 MW

16 contributing records · 16 distinct capacity scopes. Every contribution below reconciles to the selected site subtotal. National market estimates are separate.

Megawatts of power for servers, GPUs, storage and networking, excluding cooling and other building overheads. This measures electrical capacity, not GPU counts or computing performance. Future capacity is additional and subject to delivery.

Additional contributionSelected site subtotalCumulative server power · MW
Selected site subtotal602.3 MW

Read left to right: each floating column adds to the previous total. Largest contributions first. Select an operator to see its facilities. Scroll horizontally to see all columns.

See all 16 contributing records in a table
All distinct capacity claims included in the selected total
FacilityOperatorState / regionContributionTarget
NEXTDC S4 Sydney ↗NEXTDCNew South Wales250 MWNot dated
NEXTDC M3 Melbourne ↗NEXTDCVictoria165 MWNot dated
Goodman SYD01 Artarmon ↗GoodmanNew South Wales61 MWNot dated
NEXTDC M2 Melbourne ↗NEXTDCVictoria60 MWNot dated
Equinix SY9x ↗EquinixNew South Wales14 MW2026
NEXTDC S3 Sydney ↗NEXTDCNew South Wales12 MWNot dated
NEXTDC S6 Sydney ↗NEXTDCNew South Wales10.8 MWNot dated
NEXTDC M4 Melbourne ↗NEXTDCVictoria10 MWNot dated
Macquarie IC3 Super West ↗Macquarie Data CentresNew South Wales6 MW2026
NEXTDC P2 Perth ↗NEXTDCWestern Australia4 MWNot dated
NEXTDC A1 Adelaide ↗NEXTDCSouth Australia2 MWNot dated
NEXTDC B2 Brisbane ↗NEXTDCQueensland2 MWNot dated
NEXTDC P1 Perth ↗NEXTDCWestern Australia2 MWNot dated
NEXTDC D2 Darwin ↗NEXTDCNorthern Territory≈ 1.5 MW2026
NEXTDC GE1 Geelong ↗NEXTDCVictoria≈ 1 MW2027
NEXTDC SC2 Sunshine Coast ↗NEXTDCQueensland≈ 1 MW2027
23 further under construction records without a comparable contribution

These records have missing, overlapping or non-comparable power figures. They are catalogued, but excluded from this total.

Source-linked capacity for the selected facilities.18 non-comparable or overlapping capacity claims excluded from totals.

BEYOND THE MEGAWATTS

The strategic “so what”.

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CAPACITY & DELIVERY

A planned megawatt is not an operating megawatt.

Separate the development ambition from the infrastructure that is actually available.

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What is driving demand for compute?

Explore demand forecasts, training and inference, disclosed hardware and the commitments behind the pipeline.

Understand the distinction ↗SOVEREIGNTY & ASSURANCE

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