Data Center Atlas
CDC Marsden Park Campus
Under construction
Australia · 1 project · Last reported
Summary
CDC Data Centres is building a campus of six four-storey data center buildings on about 20 hectares in the Marsden Park Industrial Precinct in Sydney's north-west, within the City of Blacktown. CDC turned the first sod in October 2024 and plans 504 MW of ICT capacity, scalable toward 1 GW, with a dedicated substation of about 720 MVA. The NSW government approved it as state significant development on 27 November 2025 despite objections from Blacktown City Council; press coverage put the investment at A$3.1 billion. CDC describes the campus as in the early stages of construction.
Source record as of 2026-10-09 · Details and sources
CDC's investor day presentation, released by Infratil on 16 September 2026, reports on slide 9 'Substantial investment underway to deliver multiple large scale data centres at CDC's Marsden Park campus across FY28-29'. On the same slide it says that CDC 'is well underway at all sites where customer capacity has been contracted, with all data centres under construction to be delivered across FY27-29'. Slide 6 corroborates this: as at 30 June 2026 it maps MP2 to MP5 as under construction and MP6 as future development. This records CDC's six-building Marsden Park development as under construction on 16 September 2026, the presentation date. The FY28-29 deliveries are forecasts. No particular construction stage, completion or operation is established. evidence
CDC Data Centres (presentation released by Infratil Limited, NZX/ASX: IFT) · published 2026-09-16
Location
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Projects (1)
CDC Marsden Park Early Construction
Under construction last observed as of · Authoritative status update
This record reports under construction as of 2026-10-09. CDC Data Centres
Location: Marsden Park, City of Blacktown, New South Wales, AU. Sources name the Marsden Park Industrial Precinct without a street address; the point is the Marsden Park suburb coordinate from its Wikipedia article, so it marks the suburb rather than the site. CDC Data Centres; NSW Planning Portal; W.Media; Wikipedia
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Capacity, investment and other figures
| Measure | Value | Scope | As of | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power capacity | 504 MW | Permitted · Campus · It load | 2025-11-27 | CDC calls this total ICT capacity; the planning portal describes it as power consumption of the data centre. W.Media reports the campus can scale toward 1 GW. | CDC Data Centres; NSW Planning Portal; W.Media |
| Power capacity | 720 MW | Permitted · Campus · Grid connection | 2025-11-27 | Rating of the on-site substation: 720 MW on the planning portal and 720 MVA in CDC's release. | CDC Data Centres; NSW Planning Portal |
| Investment | 3,100,000,000 AUD | Reported · Campus | 2025-11-28 | Figure given in coverage of the approval; CDC's own release gives no amount. | W.Media; Startup Daily (Information Age) |
| Buildings | 6 count | Planned · Campus | 2025-11-27 | CDC Data Centres; NSW Planning Portal | |
| Land area | 20.1 hectares | Reported · Campus | 2024-10-25 | CDC Data Centres | |
| Jobs construction | 200 count | Planned · Campus | 2025-12-04 | Figure reported by Information Age; CDC's release instead cites more than 10,000 jobs over the life of construction. | Startup Daily (Information Age) |
| Jobs permanent | 265 count | Planned · Campus | 2025-12-04 | Startup Daily (Information Age) |
Companies and organizations
| Name | Role | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| CDC Data Centres | Developer | CDC Data Centres; W.Media; Startup Daily (Information Age) | |
| CDC Data Centres | Owner | CDC Data Centres | |
| CDC Data Centres | Operator | CDC Data Centres | |
| NSW Department of Planning | Government | Assessed and approved the campus as state significant development. | NSW Planning Portal; W.Media |
Timeline
| Date | Event | Actual or planned | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-25 | Construction started | Actual | Ceremonial sod-turning, with minor earthworks and site preparation already under way. | CDC Data Centres |
| 2025-11-27 | Permit approved | Actual | Approved as state significant development SSD-70889211; Blacktown City Council had objected on engineering and planning grounds. | NSW Planning Portal; W.Media |
Power supply
| Type | Description | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Grid | Dedicated on-site substation of about 720 MVA. | CDC Data Centres; NSW Planning Portal |
Status rests on CDC's undated Sydney locations page, which described Marsden Park as in the early stages of construction when accessed on 2026-10-09, so status_as_of is the access date. An earlier DatacenterDynamics report on the filing gave a lower investment figure, but that page could not be opened. Wikipedia is cited only for the suburb coordinate.
Sources for these details
- CDC Data Centres Breaks Ground on New State-of-the-Art Data Centre Development in Marsden Park Industrial Precinct — CDC Data Centres; 2024-10-25
- Marsden Park Data Centre (SSD-70889211) — NSW Planning Portal; publication date not stated · Archived source
- NSW govt approves CDC's 504 MW campus in Sydney — W.Media; 2025-11-28
- NSW gives the nod to a $3 billion CDC data centre in Western Sydney — Startup Daily (Information Age); 2025-12-04
- Sydney and regional NSW locations — CDC Data Centres; publication date not stated
- Marsden Park, New South Wales — Wikipedia; publication date not stated
- Companies
- Operator: CDC Data Centres (intended) evidence
- Developer: CDC Data Centres (unknown scope) evidence
- Developer: CDC Data Centres (unknown scope) evidence
- Developer: CDC Data Centres (unknown scope) evidence
- Owner: CDC Data Centres (unknown scope) evidence
- Operator: CDC Data Centres (unknown scope) evidence
- Government: NSW Department of Planning (unknown scope) evidence
- Government: NSW Department of Planning (unknown scope) evidence
Source and location review
- Status source
- CDC Investor Day Presentation (Infratil Investor Update, 16 September 2026) evidence row
CDC Data Centres (presentation released by Infratil Limited, NZX/ASX: IFT) · published 2026-09-16 · Company disclosure - Locator
- Campus locator · Community mapped · community_mapped_named_cdc_marsden_park_campus_development_polygon evidence
- Source checks
Not reviewed against imagery not_
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No imagery review is recorded for this project. Its status rests only on the dated authoritative source. · no independent imagery verificationStatus age at review: 41 days before the data update on 2026-10-27
Location details
- Coordinates
- -33.72369, 150.83637
- Geometry licence
- ODbL-1.0
- Use scope
- Campus locator
- Scope class
- community_mapped_named_cdc_marsden_park_campus_development_polygon
- Authority
- Community mapped
- Source entity
- Facility
- Method
- cross_source_identity_bridge_to_live_osm_named_cdc_marsden_park_campus_polygon
- Derivation
- capture_replayed_geometry
- Precision scope
- The polygon is a contributor-mapped named development outline and the point is only its deterministic longitude-latitude bounding-box midpoint. Neither is a survey, cadastral, planning, parcel, security, building, phase, or current construction boundary. OSM construction tags are retained solely as source context and never provide the selected project's authoritative lifecycle.
- Horizontal uncertainty
Not reported
OpenStreetMap supplies no survey accuracy, cadastral authority, planning-boundary authority, or numeric horizontal uncertainty for this way.
- Geometry evidence
- ce28239d
A locator places the site on the map. It is not a building footprint, a construction extent or a surveyed boundary unless the use scope is an official boundary, and even then it is a parcel or permit boundary.
Evidence
Sources are linked, not redistributed; each keeps its own terms. An archived copy is a lookup for the Wayback Machine capture nearest the retrieval date and may be unavailable or differ from what was reviewed. Each hash states what it covers; imported factual records are not publisher-page captures.
| Title | Publisher | Roles | Published | Retrieved | Licence | Attribution | Content hash (SHA-256) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDC Data Centres Breaks Ground on New State-of-the-Art Data Centre Development in Marsden Park Industrial Precinct Archived copy | CDC Data Centres Company disclosure | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Metric: Buildings, Metric: Land Area, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: Construction Started, Power Source: Grid, Role: Developer, Operator claim, Owner claim | source-terms-not-recorded | CDC Data Centres | 1b47260f3da54b9ec87a8cfb18e97d9ded2e844e1513ef6896cdff9a92e30bc0Factual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| CDC Investor Day Presentation (Infratil Investor Update, 16 September 2026) Archived copy | CDC Data Centres (presentation released by Infratil Limited, NZX/ASX: IFT) Company disclosure | Physical status | all-rights-reserved | CDC Data Centres / Infratil Limited | 971c5cac53ff8e04a61557ee623c8b8ca34ade097bc3b024b37658babce592afRetained source material; see source provenance | ||
| CDC Marsden Park Campus current status Archived copy | CDC Data Centres Company disclosure | Physical status, Operator claim | not stated | all-rights-reserved | CDC Data Centres | 66d6de9440d4496482af80159cbe361afdb8e36bdebd5edf81ac1c65f1337620Retained source material; see source provenance | |
| Marsden Park Data Centre (SSD-70889211) Archived copy | NSW Planning Portal Government record | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Metric: Buildings, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: Permit Approved, Power Source: Grid, Role: Government | not stated | source-terms-not-recorded | NSW Planning Portal | affdb4c05e4fd9ce15e93fef86065d35691c169928880524b7946c3e5b85f56dFactual source record; not the publisher page | |
| Marsden Park, New South Wales Archived copy | Wikipedia Other | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record | not stated | source-terms-not-recorded | Wikipedia | 7fa9e8bf2b83645f019be8c1cf972a3b55e34b1038a875dcedc9a4ef6730cb03Factual source record; not the publisher page | |
| NSW gives the nod to a $3 billion CDC data centre in Western Sydney Archived copy | Startup Daily (Information Age) News | Imported: Record, Metric: Investment, Metric: Jobs Construction, Metric: Jobs Permanent, Role: Developer | source-terms-not-recorded | Startup Daily (Information Age) | e4911f2a1b62cfd1b89a7dad7ae658db55e5f4c082b943a732dbde949417c9d7Factual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| NSW govt approves CDC's 504 MW campus in Sydney Archived copy | W.Media Trade publication | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Metric: Investment, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: Permit Approved, Role: Developer, Role: Government | source-terms-not-recorded | W.Media | cfc646b8cbd1e0964703443b2c51039ce43d43884583608079216add2d1d016eFactual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| OpenStreetMap way 1336972876 — CDC Marsden Park Campus Archived copy | OpenStreetMap contributors Open map geometry | Geometry | ODbL-1.0 | © OpenStreetMap contributors | f176dfe0fd79fca768f9290dc5aa2204df379204403753640b3d48015b0fe8d8Retained source material; see source provenance | ||
| Sydney and regional NSW locations Archived copy | CDC Data Centres Company disclosure | Imported: Record, Imported: Status | not stated | source-terms-not-recorded | CDC Data Centres | f17cb698213f8d00f74822e976185eb369b22df8e4608d03266f64cebd820fdfFactual source record; not the publisher page |
Cite this site
Kyars, K. (2026). CDC Marsden Park Campus [site vcc-site-37ddc3b143bf9ea08d1c]. In Data Center Atlas (2026-10-27) [Data set]. https://kiankyars.github.io/datacenter-atlas/sites/vcc-site-37ddc3b143bf9ea08d1c/
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