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Australia's northern digital gateway — if generation actually arrives

Darwin

Can Darwin become Australia's northern digital gateway between Australian energy and Asian compute demand?

Darwin already has a Singapore cable and a 7 MW city data centre. Weddell is an announced GW-scale gas-to-compute concept with site exclusivity and no FID. Announced is not deliverable.

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Sentinel-2 and live meteo

Darwin / Weddell industrial area

12.607°S 130.994°E

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2024 · pad not a survey

Deliverable MW today

High confidence

0–7 MW

What exists in Darwin today is NEXTDC D1 at up to 7 MW, not Weddell.

Time to power (likely)

Preliminary

2035

Likely later. Pre-FEED with partners not secured is not a 2030 energisation.

Overall confidence

preliminary

SITE-AU-NT-DARWIN-WEDDELL-001

Why Darwin?

  • DJSC (2023).
  • Asia geography.
  • Defence.
  • Political support.
  • Own-generation thesis.

What is missing?

  • Gas FID.
  • Pipeline.
  • Approvals.
  • Tenants.
  • Any verified campus MW.

Infrastructure class

  • Existing

    DJSC

    Darwin–Jakarta–Singapore, 2023.

  • Existing

    NEXTDC D1

    Up to 7 MW IT.

  • Proposed

    Weddell 185 ha exclusivity

    Not an approval.

  • Speculative

    Up to 2 GW gas plant

    Proponent statement.

Candidate sites

Projects

Evidence