CDC Stratford

CDC · New Zealand

Stratford, Taranaki · facility

Planned

Facility type: colocation
Location evidence: Approximate city location
Research status: Source-listed profile · 63% core-field coverage

Core-field coverage counts eight basic fields available in the Atlas. It is not an accuracy score or a measure of technical specification completeness. Individual evidence checks appear below.

Evidence by field

Evidence status applies to the named field and cited sources. “Not found” means those sources do not establish the fact; it does not establish absence.

Identity Source checked: Contact and CDC identify the same proposed Stratford project.Checked 2026-09-23 · Contact Energy ↗
Status Source checked: Contact says resource consent will be sought; the project is at concept, design and engagement stage.Checked 2026-09-23 · Contact Energy ↗
Capacity Source checked: The concept is described as 250 MW without an explicit IT electrical boundary, so it remains outside comparable totals.Checked 2026-09-23 · Contact Energy ↗

Capacity & development

Planned≤ 250 MW

Power basis not established

Contact and CDC describe a 250 MW data centre concept at Stratford and intend to seek resource consent. The electrical boundary is not stated as IT; no approval, construction or operating capacity is evidenced.

Excluded from capacity totals: scope or power basis is not comparable.

Contact Energy ↗

Government certification

Australian HCF not applicable

Australia's Hosting Certification Framework does not apply to this New Zealand record.

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Scope and context

Added from a public Data Center Map listing. Identity and location remain directory-reported until corroborated against operator or planning evidence.
Contact and CDC are exploring a site at Stratford, Taranaki; 250 MW is a pre-consent project concept, not an operating centre.

Compute, workloads & commercial commitments

Site-specific workloads, GPU inventory and customer contracts are not established by the cited evidence. Electrical capacity and AI-ready specifications alone do not establish these details.

Related operator-wide evidence

These disclosures describe the operator’s portfolio. They are not assigned to this facility or included in its power totals.

Facility specificationANZAnnouncement

CDC reports a 3.9 GW leasable ANZ pipeline

September 2026 investor update reports 3.9 GW leasable pipeline as at 30 June 2026. Earlier 1.7 GW leasable capacity corresponded to a 2.5 GW built capacity pipeline. The definitions differ and cannot be summed.

Total leasable pipeline: 3,900 MW leasable

Evidence scope: Operator portfolio · CDC
Evidence as-of date: 2026-06-30

How to read this: Includes existing operating and future capacity across Australia and New Zealand. It is not additional pipeline or site-allocated IT capacity and is not additive to facility totals.

Inspect the source

CDC Infratil investor update, 16 September 2026 ↗
CDC / Infratil · checked 2026-09-22 · published 2026-09-16
Slides: CDC Group snapshot; Then and now; Operating capacity has more than doubled; Construction is progressing; footnotes defining pipeline

Link to this evidence ↗

Facility specificationNew ZealandOperating deployment

CDC New Zealand operating ICT capacity: approximately 80 MW

CDC reports approximately 80 MW of operating primary ICT capacity in New Zealand at 30 June 2026, rounded to the nearest 10 MW.

Operating primary ICT capacity: ≈ 80 MW IT

Evidence scope: Operator portfolio · CDC
Evidence as-of date: 2026-06-30

How to read this: The portfolio is included once in the operating reconciliation. Capacity is not allocated between individual Auckland buildings. Primary ICT is distinct from the operator’s earlier gross built-capacity measure.