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CDC Marsden Park Campus (Sydney) + 555MW US Hyperscaler Contract

CDC Marsden Park Campus (Sydney) + 555MW US Hyperscaler Contract

Permitted
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: Australia

Marsden Park, NSW — A$3.1B / 504MW-approved six-building campus (NSW green light: 'Southern Hemisphere's biggest data centre'), 555MW/30yr contract linkage is DCD-framing only (CDC names no campus) — see contract claim. Contract with an unnamed US investment-grade customer; campuses online 2028-2029.

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

48 /100
48/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled

Schedule

55 /100
55/100

Regulatory

50 /100
50/100

Infrastructure

50 /100
50/100

Capital

40 /100
40/100

Why this score — factor breakdown

Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.

Dimension
Factor
Contribution
Cites
Narrative
Capital baseline 40 CDC Marsden Park Campus (Sydney) + 555MW US Hyperscaler Contract No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 CDC Marsden Park Campus (Sydney) + 555MW US Hyperscaler Contract No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure staleness decay -20 CDC Marsden Park Campus (Sydney) + 555MW US Hyperscaler Contract Newest infrastructure evidence is 2025-11-27 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Regulatory baseline 70 CDC Marsden Park Campus (Sydney) + 555MW US Hyperscaler Contract No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory staleness decay -20 CDC Marsden Park Campus (Sydney) + 555MW US Hyperscaler Contract Newest regulatory evidence is 2025-11-27 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Schedule baseline 80 CDC Marsden Park Campus (Sydney) + 555MW US Hyperscaler Contract No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule staleness decay -25 CDC Marsden Park Campus (Sydney) + 555MW US Hyperscaler Contract Newest schedule evidence is 2025-11-27 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

No milestones recorded for this project yet.

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
CDC Data Centres
Developer

Sources & citations

Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.

  1. NSW Planning Portal · Nov 27, 2025 · backs: status

    https://www.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/major-projects/projects/marsden-park-data-centre

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. · CDC Data Centres · relevance 0.85

  2. · NSW Government · relevance 0.85

  3. · NSW Planning Portal · relevance 0.85