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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

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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

Planned subtotal: 8,661.1 MW

31 contributing records · 32 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. The planning inventory includes proposed and approved design envelopes and labelled upper limits. It is not committed supply or a delivery forecast; campus envelopes do not enter the dated installation outlook.

Additional contributionSelected site subtotalCumulative server power · MW
Selected site subtotal8,661.1 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 31 contributing records in a table
All distinct capacity claims included in the selected total
FacilityOperatorState / regionContributionTarget
Firmus Stirling North AI Factory ↗FirmusSouth Australia≈ 1,300 MWNot dated
NEXTDC M5 Melbourne ↗NEXTDCVictoria≤ 1,200 MWNot dated
Firmus Tailem Bend AI Factory ↗FirmusSouth Australia≈ 1,000 MWNot dated
Project Ares, Murranji Station ↗Energy NorthNorthern Territory≈ 1,000 MWNot dated
Mamre Road Data Centre Campus (AirTrunk SYD4) ↗AirTrunkNew South Wales≈ 750 MWNot dated
IREN Bundey campus ↗IRENSouth Australia≤ 600 MWNot dated
NEXTDC S7 Sydney ↗NEXTDCNew South Wales≥ 550 MWNot dated
Supernode data centre campus ↗QuinbrookQueensland500 MWNot dated
GreenSquare MEL1 Spotswood ↗GreenSquareDCVictoria≤ 240 MWNot dated
Project Meridien / Gingerah Energy Hub ↗Gingerah EnergyWestern Australia≈ 240 MWNot dated
Amazon AWS SYD - 2 Glendenning Road ↗Amazon AWSNew South Wales≤ 193.6 MWNot dated
NEXTDC M4 Melbourne ↗NEXTDCVictoria≈ 140 MWNot dated
Project Blue Tongue, Davis Road Data Centre ↗Operator not publicly identifiedNew South Wales≤ 132.4 MWNot dated
NEXTDC S4 Sydney ↗NEXTDCNew South Wales115 MWNot dated
NEXTDC S5 Sydney ↗NEXTDCNew South Wales≥ 80 MWNot dated
Julius Avenue Data Centre ↗ISPTNew South Wales≤ 76 MWNot dated
Goodman Project Pluto ↗GoodmanNew South Wales68 MWNot dated
Vantage MEL1 Melbourne ↗Vantage Data CentersVictoria64 MWNot dated
DCI SYD02 Eastern Creek expansion ↗DCI Data CentersNew South Wales≤ 63 MWNot dated
Starwood / Doma / Telstra Minchinbury ↗Starwood / Doma / Telstra InfraCoNew South Wales62 MW2028
Goodman Project Mars ↗GoodmanNew South Wales≤ 60 MWNot dated
43–61 Turner Road Data Centre, Gregory Hills ↗Operator not publicly identifiedNew South Wales≤ 53 MWNot dated
DigiCo SYD1 Sydney ↗DigiCoNew South Wales52 MWNot dated
Macquarie IC3 Super West ↗Macquarie Data CentresNew South Wales28 MWNot dated
Firmus Wesley Vale AI Factory ↗FirmusTasmania23 MWNot dated
DCI CBR01 Jerrabomberra ↗DCI Data CentersNew South Wales≤ 20 MWNot dated
DigiCo BNE3 Brisbane ↗DigiCoQueensland≈ 19.6 MW2027
Macquarie IC3 Super West ↗Macquarie Data CentresNew South Wales13 MW2027-06
NEXTDC GC1 Gold Coast ↗NEXTDCQueensland≈ 6 MWNot dated
NEXTDC SC2 Sunshine Coast ↗NEXTDCQueensland≈ 5 MWNot dated
NEXTDC D2 Darwin ↗NEXTDCNorthern Territory≈ 4.5 MWNot dated
NEXTDC GE1 Geelong ↗NEXTDCVictoria≈ 3 MWNot dated
73 further planned 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

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CAPACITY & DELIVERY

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