 has refiled its Kemps Creek data center plan, expanding a single 144MW building into a six-building campus rated at 1.4GW. The [New ...](https://cdn.baxtel.com/data-center/cdc-refiles-kemps-creek-plan-lifting-sydney-campus-to-1-4gw/logo/large_cdc-refiles-kemps-creek-plan-lifting-sydney-campus-to-1-4gw-featured(2).jpg){kind=logo}
CDC has refiled its Kemps Creek data center plan, expanding a single 144MW building into a six-building campus rated at 1.4GW. The New South Wales Department of Planning lists the revised State Significant Development application, SSD-133677993, at a total power consumption of 1.4GW. Bax
Featured: Wide exterior photograph of a large-scale operational CDC data center facility.tel reported the original August filing, a four-storey building of 144MW on 88.4 hectares at 871-901 Mamre Road.
The updated application covers six two-storey buildings, named KC1 to KC6, plus an administration building, an on-site substation and a realignment of the Local Collector Road. The CDC: Kemps Creek, NSW proposal now spans 117.5 hectares at 859-901 Mamre Road, up from 88.4 hectares in the first filing, according to Data Center Dynamics. The earlier application was framed as the first stage of a wider campus, while the new filing places the whole campus in a single application.
CDC develops and would operate the campus. CDC's project page states the site will hold six two-storey buildings for critical data and technology systems, along with backup generators, cooling systems and an on-site substation that CDC will build and pay for. The page states the buildings use a sealed, closed-loop cooling system that does not draw water on an ongoing basis, and that the site's electricity will be offset by renewables.
CDC's project page cites economic modelling commissioned by the company. The modelling puts the full campus at about 5,000 jobs across the New South Wales supply chain during construction and 2,700 ongoing jobs once the campus is fully operational. It also estimates AU$3.1 billion of value added to the state economy during construction and AU$700 million a year once the campus is operating.
The application sits in the Penrith local government area. CDC was founded in 2007 and is backed by Infratil. Data Center Dynamics reports the company has nearly 20 sites across Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Auckland, with more than 600MW of capacity in operation and development and a 1.6GW pipeline to 2034. In Sydney, CDC operates the Eastern Creek campus and is developing Marsden Park.
Baxtel tracks 113 data center facilities in Sydney, where 15 are under construction; the largest, AirTrunk Sydney, is rated at 130MW.
The Kemps Creek application is at the Amend SEARs stage on the planning portal, the step before CDC prepares an Environmental Impact Statement for public exhibition.
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