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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

47.5 /100
47.5/100

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

Schedule

60 /100
60/100

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 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).

Milestones

  1. Announcement

    Achieved

    Announcement · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
OpenAI
Anchor Tenant
NEXTDC
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. NEXTDC · Dec 5, 2025 · backs: actual date, status

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

Signals

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

  1. · NEXTDC · relevance 0.70

  2. · NEXTDC · relevance 0.90