Australian Compute Atlas
Australia is the first deep market
Metropolitan brownfields. Post-generation sites. The northern energy frontier. Northern Australia is first-class, not a secondary layer.
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Locations
Northern Australia
Townsville
Northern Australia's emerging energy-compute node.
Northern Australia
Darwin
Can Darwin become Australia's northern digital gateway between Australian energy and Asian compute demand?
Northern Australia
Port Hedland
AI training colocated with one of the world's largest industrial energy systems is a question, not a fact.
Northern Australia
Karratha
Maitland SIA sits in a gas-rich industrial geography. Compute is not an evidenced use.
New South Wales
Sydney
Sydney is a constrained demand geography. Botany is a brownfield option inside it, not a spare 500 MW.
Victoria
Melbourne
Altona is a brownfield with metro fibre. The evidenced programme is warehousing.
New South Wales
Newcastle
Port, river, industrial buffers and historic load. Fragmented title.
New South Wales
Hunter / Muswellbrook
Retired thermal plant, retained transmission, a 500 MW battery, and no verified campus MW.
Northern Australia
Mount Isa
The Western Link is not the Eastern Link.
Northern Australia
Cairns
Do not automatically treat Cairns as hyperscale.
Queensland
Brisbane
SEQ is a demand and interconnection node for northern projects, not a Mousterian waterfront object in v0.1.
Queensland
Western Downs
A generation-rich inland geography in the seed as a named node, not a deep site pack.
Western Australia
Perth
Perth is the western landing and the backhaul for Pilbara industrial compute.
Pads
metropolitan industrial brownfield
REQUIRES VERIFICATIONAltona petrochemical precinct
Metropolitan industrial brownfield with historic electrical load.
- 5-year scenario
- 50–150 MW
- Likely power
- Not dated
- Confidence
- Moderate confidence
A compute developer and a grid offer.
metropolitan industrial brownfield
REQUIRES VERIFICATIONBotany Industrial Park — former Qenos
Sydney demand.
- 5-year scenario
- 50–200 MW
- Likely power
- Not dated
- Confidence
- Moderate confidence
RAP completion.
post industrial post generation
REQUIRES VERIFICATIONNewcastle / Hunter River industrial waterfront
Industrial waterfront.
- 5-year scenario
- 100–400 MW
- Likely power
- Not dated
- Confidence
- Preliminary
A single controlled site.
post industrial post generation
REQUIRES VERIFICATIONLiddell / Muswellbrook — Hunter Energy Hub
Retired ~2 GW thermal plant.
- 5-year scenario
- 100–500 MW
- Likely power
- 2032
- Confidence
- Moderate confidence
A published connectable MW figure.
northern energy frontier
REQUIRES VERIFICATIONTownsville / Lansdown Eco-Industrial Precinct
2,200 ha High Impact Industrial land under a single public owner.
- 5-year scenario
- 50–250 MW
- Likely power
- 2035
- Confidence
- Moderate confidence
A published connectable MW figure for 2028, 2030, 2032 and 2035.
northern energy frontier
REQUIRES VERIFICATIONDarwin / Weddell industrial area
Live Singapore cable.
- 5-year scenario
- 0–500 MW
- Likely power
- 2035
- Confidence
- Preliminary
FID.
northern energy frontier
REQUIRES VERIFICATIONPort Hedland / Boodarie Strategic Industrial Area
Industrial energy system.
- 5-year scenario
- 50–250 MW
- Likely power
- Not dated
- Confidence
- Moderate confidence
Spare MW.
northern energy frontier
REQUIRES VERIFICATIONKarratha / Maitland Strategic Industrial Area
Gas and LNG industrial system.
- 5-year scenario
- 50–200 MW
- Likely power
- Not dated
- Confidence
- Preliminary
Almost every verified MW, fibre and water figure.
northern energy frontier
REQUIRES VERIFICATIONMount Isa / North West Minerals Province
Minerals province.
- 5-year scenario
- 0–50 MW
- Likely power
- Not dated
- Confidence
- Preliminary
A Western Link that is actually a line.
northern energy frontier
REQUIRES VERIFICATIONCairns — Pacific-facing edge
Pacific face.
- 5-year scenario
- 10–40 MW
- Likely power
- Not dated
- Confidence
- Preliminary
A named edge project with MW.