Australian operator Canberra Data Centres (CDC) has broken ground on its 504MW data center campus in the Marsden Park Industrial Precinct in Sydney.
Announced in a recent LinkedIn post, the operator said its campus will feature six four-story data center buildings, each housing up to 24 data halls and supporting office space.
The 20.1-hectare campus will also see the construction of a dedicated 720MVA substation and 40 generators.
CDC has also filed to develop an additional 5MW facility on the site.
The AU$1.4 billion (US$934.5m) project will accommodate cloud and AI workloads and will create more than 10,000 jobs during the construction and operational phases.
The groundbreaking ceremony was attended by the Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic and Blacktown City Council Mayor Brad Bunting.
Plans for the campus first surfaced in May this year when the company filed a SEARS request with New South Wales.
CDC currently operates a campus in the Eastern Creek area of Sydney. The 281MW campus features four operational data centers – EC1, EC2, EC3, EC4 – with and two under construction (EC5, EC6).
The company also has Australian sites in operation and development in Canberra, Melbourne, and in Auckland, New Zealand.
