Property fund manager ISPT’s 52-hectare logistics park at 706-752 Mamre Road Western Sydney has been revealed as the home a new data centre campus with a power capacity of up to 1GW, 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 proposed plans are for a 38 metre high site with the proponents suggesting a 20 metre restriction would limit IT capacity and make the site less efficient.
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 has not been linked to a hyperscaler but Microsoft already has a self-build site in the vicinity so other likely candidates would be AWS and Oracle.
The NSW government will issue a Secretary’s Environmental Assessment Requirements (SEARs) specifying what environmental studies and information must be included in an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), like traffic, biodiversity, heritage, noise, air quality, water, social impacts, and cumulative effects. Once the SEARs are issued, the proponent can prepare and lodge the EIS.