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Planning documents filed with the New South Wales government identify Princeton Digital Group as the client behind a 100-megawatt data centre in Sydney's southwest. The scoping report, first reported by Mingtiandi on Oct. 24, describes capital investm
Featured: High-resolution architectural exterior rendering of a flagship hyperscale data center facility operated by Princeton Digital Group.ent above A$1 billion (US$701 million). If built, the project would be the Singapore operator's first facility in Australia.
Drawings by consultant AECOM, filed with a request for state environmental assessment requirements, label the campus at 192 Narellan Road in Campbelltown "PDG Project Genesis" and name the client as PDG. The drawing package carries a draft issue date of 25 May 2026. Neither the scoping report nor the state planning portal names PDG, and PDG did not respond to a request for comment.
The request is the first step in the state's assessment process. The planning department must issue its requirements before the developer prepares an environmental impact statement, which goes on public exhibition before the state decides whether to approve the project.
The 12.71-hectare site forms part of the Maryfields Estate, about 44 kilometres southwest of the Sydney central business district. The scoping report describes two buildings delivered in stages, at 26 metres and 30 metres. Campbelltown's local environmental plan caps height on the land at 15 metres, and a separate application asks the council to raise the limit to 30 metres so rooftop chillers, cooling towers and generator flues can sit behind acoustic walls. Endeavour Energy issued a connection offer in December 2025 for supply across three stages, anchored by a 66-kilovolt switching station on site that the developer would pay for. Sydney Water agreed in principle to an interim potable supply, moving to fully recycled cooling water by late 2031.
The report puts Project Genesis at A$10 million or more per megawatt, against about A$13.2 million per megawatt for Microsoft's recently approved 96 MW Huntingwood facility in western Sydney. The campus would rely on 78 emergency backup generators, bulk diesel storage and lithium-ion batteries, and the report projects 900 to 1,100 ongoing jobs at full build-out.
The Australian Financial Review reported on Oct. 11 that PDG was poised to enter the Australian market. In an Australian Competition and Consumer Commission filing lodged on 30 March, PDG's Australian entity agreed to acquire vacant land in Campbelltown from MH Property No. 1 for the purpose of building a data centre. The regulator granted a waiver on 21 April, and PDG told the ACCC it does not own or operate any data centre assets in Australia. PDG, backed by Warburg Pincus, Mubadala and Stonepeak, reports more than 1.8 GW of capacity across Asia Pacific.
Baxtel counts 114 data centre facilities in Sydney, operated by 38 providers, with 15 under construction.
New South Wales released a data centre policy framework in August that offers faster approvals to projects meeting tougher environmental and resource standards. The National Cabinet endorsed mandatory national standards for large data centres on 26 August, with the federal government committing to legislate in early 2027.
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