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Ratings for the physical buildout of AI
NEXTDC M3 (West Footscray, Melbourne)

NEXTDC M3 (West Footscray, Melbourne)

Operating
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: Australia

West Footscray, Melbourne — 150MW campus plan (FY25 target 225MW IT; 41 data halls / 23,000 racks at full build); Stage 1 (27MW, six halls) complete 2022; Kapitol as builder via ECI-to-GMP contract; liquid direct-to-chip for AI deployments.

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

69.5 /100
69.5/100

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

Schedule

80 /100
80/100

Regulatory

70 /100
70/100

Infrastructure

70 /100
70/100

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 NEXTDC M3 (West Footscray, Melbourne) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Regulatory baseline 70 NEXTDC M3 (West Footscray, Melbourne) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure baseline 70 NEXTDC M3 (West Footscray, Melbourne) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 NEXTDC M3 (West Footscray, Melbourne) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).

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
NEXTDC
Developer
Kapitol
General Contractor

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. Kapitol · backs: status

    https://www.kapitol.com/our-projects/industrial/nextdc-m3-data-centre-portfolio

Signals

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

  1. · NEXTDC · relevance 0.95

  2. Kapitol · relevance 0.70