Jurisdiction: Australia
Eastern Creek, ~45km west of Sydney CBD — 258,000 sqm developable land (acquired Oct 2024, ~A$353M); up to 550MW at full build; AU$7B program; OpenAI anchor via non-binding MoU (Dec 2025); Phase 1 target H2 2027; liquid-cooled GPU-cluster design.
Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled
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.
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| Capital | baseline | 40 | NEXTDC S7 Eastern Creek (OpenAI Stargate Australia) | No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4). |
| Regulatory | staleness decay | -20 | NEXTDC S7 Eastern Creek (OpenAI Stargate Australia) | Newest regulatory evidence is 2025-12-05 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information). |
| Infrastructure | baseline | 70 | NEXTDC S7 Eastern Creek (OpenAI Stargate Australia) | No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Infrastructure | staleness decay | -20 | NEXTDC S7 Eastern Creek (OpenAI Stargate Australia) | Newest infrastructure evidence is 2025-12-05 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information). |
| Regulatory | baseline | 70 | NEXTDC S7 Eastern Creek (OpenAI Stargate Australia) | No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Schedule | baseline | 80 | NEXTDC S7 Eastern Creek (OpenAI Stargate Australia) | No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Schedule | milestone achieved | +5 | Announcement | Milestone "Announcement" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-12-05). |
| Schedule | staleness decay | -25 | NEXTDC S7 Eastern Creek (OpenAI Stargate Australia) | Newest schedule evidence is 2025-12-05 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information). |
Announcement · Actual:
No active constraint observations recorded against this project.
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.
NEXTDC · Dec 5, 2025 · backs: actual date, status
https://www.nextdc.com/news/building-the-next-generation-of-sovereign-ai-infrastructure-in-australia
Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.
· NEXTDC · relevance 0.70
· NEXTDC · relevance 0.90