AirTrunk, CDC advance data centre plans
AirTrunk has secured $4.25 billion in green financing for its Western Sydney data centre campus, while Canberra-based CDC Data Centres has won conditional approval for a $203.5m in Canberra.
In Sydney, AirTrunk has sourced a green loan to complete its SYD3 campus at Eastern Creek (artist’s impression, top).
On 8.3 hectares it will contain 70,000 square metres of technical data hall space and 9,600 sqm of office and storage area.
Construction is underway with completion expected by mid-2028.
The loan is backed by a consortium of 32 Australian and international financial institutiuons,
Blackstone-backed AirTrunk has five Australian campuses with more than 1.2 gigawatts of capacity.
The financing takes its globally committed debt funding to about $38.4 billion, including more than $19.8 billion across its Australian projects.
AirTrunk late last year announced plans for a $1b data centre campus, expected to be MEL2, in Melbourne’s Mickleham (continues below).
CDC approved in Canberra
In Canberra, CDC has secured conditional development approval for Beard 2, a three-storey data centre at 23 Tantalum Street, Beard.
The project will contain 29,924 square metres with 84 megawatts of capacity across 12 data halls.
.The approved scheme includes emergency generators with a combined capacity of up to 20MW and provision for a future 3830 sqm substation. It will also 23 car parks.
Beard 1 has 10 data halls and 39MW of capacity.
In September, CDC applied to build a $15 billion campus across 103.8 hectares at Gregadoo, south of Wagga Wagga, with four buildings and potential power demand of up to 1.4GW. It is also building a 504MW campus at Marsden Park in Sydney’s north-west.
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