Australian-based pan-Asian data centre operator AirTrunk has been named by Green Street News as the buyer of property fund manager ISPT’s new 1 GW data centre campus, located at its 52-hectare logistics park at 706-752 Mamre Road Western Sydney. However the sale of the land is conditional on the approval of an application for a 1GW data centre.
The plans, which are currently at EIS preparation stage, include the construction and operation of a data centre campus with a power capacity of 1 GW including six four-storey data centre buildings, 936 cooling units, 852 diesel back-up generators and 14,430 kl of diesel storage, internal roads and car parking.
The documents filed in the project, which is designated as a State Significant Development (SSD) suggest the plan is to invest in excess excess of $5 billion. The site is located in the Mamre Road Precinct (MRP), which forms part of the Western Sydney Employment Area (WSEA) and was rezoned by the NSW Government in June 2020. The rezoning facilitated 850 hectares of industrial land for future investment and is anticipated to provide 17,000 ongoing jobs when fully developed.
The proposal is projected to employ upwards of 500 staff throughout the campus and offsite. In addition to an electrical substation, the site will feature 24 shells across four (4) storeys (four (4) shells per building) with a total capacity anticipated to range between 600-1,000 MW. The site had not been linked to a hyperscaler directly but Microsoft already has a self-build site in the vicinity so other likely candidates were thought to have been AWS and Oracle.
W.Media has reached out to AirTrunk for comment, while ISPT declined to comment.