Microsoft · Australia
Microsoft Cawley Road (MEL05)
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Also recorded as: MEL5 · Cawley Road Building Two
Melbourne, VIC · facility
- Facility type
- hyperscale
- Location evidence
- Approximate city location
- Research status
- Source-listed profile · 50% 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.
- Status Source checked
- Microsoft's February 2025 update reports structural work on Building Two complete with fit-out under way, and a September 2026 entry schedules generator commissioning.Checked 2026-11-03 · Microsoft Local (Microsoft in Your Community) ↗
- Identity Not found in checked sources
- Building Two (the MEL5 building named in 2022 reporting) sits alongside MEL4 within Microsoft's larger Cawley Road holding; no cited source gives its own street number, so no street address is published.Checked 2026-11-03 · Microsoft Local (Microsoft in Your Community) ↗ · The Urban Developer (Ted Tabet) ↗
Capacity & development
Power basis not established
Directory reports Under Construction. No comparable IT capacity or commissioning date has been accepted from this listing.
Government certification
Certification not verified
No verified certification scope has been assigned to this record. Unknown does not mean uncertified.
What certification covers →Scope and context
- Added from a public Data Center Map listing. Identity and location remain directory-reported until corroborated against operator or planning evidence.
- The directory links this entry to Microsoft Cawley Road Campus. It shares a grouped site boundary with its reported parent; a hosted provider or child building is not counted as another independent site.
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.
Explore demand, compute types and commitments →Evidence trail
- Microsoft Cawley Road (MEL05): directory profile and specifications ↗
Data Center Map · checked 2026-09-11
Public listing 19053; location, overview, specs tabs. Address/location header and labelled technical specification rows.
- Cawley Road datacentre project overview ↗
Microsoft Local (Microsoft in Your Community) · checked 2026-11-03 · published 2022-10-26
Sections 'February 2025 / Building One', 'June 2026', lead paragraph and 'October 2022'; Sections 'February 2025 / Building Two', 'May 2023 / Building Two' and 'September 2026 / Planned generator schedule'
- Microsoft Lodges Plans for $150m Inner-City Data Centre ↗
The Urban Developer (Ted Tabet) · checked 2026-11-03 · published 2022-03-22
Paragraphs 2 and 6 of article
- Natural Earth populated places, 1:10m ↗
Natural Earth · checked 2026-09-10
Australia and New Zealand populated-place features