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NEXTDC S7 Eastern Creek (OpenAI Stargate Australia)

NEXTDC S7 Eastern Creek (OpenAI Stargate Australia)

Announced
Probable

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.

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

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Milestones

  1. Announcement

    Achieved

    Announcement · Actual:

Constraint observations

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Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
OpenAI
Anchor Tenant
NEXTDC
Developer

Sources & citations

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  1. NEXTDC · Dec 5, 2025 · backs: actual date, status

    https://www.nextdc.com/news/building-the-next-generation-of-sovereign-ai-infrastructure-in-australia

Signals

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  1. · NEXTDC

  2. · NEXTDC