Planning Approved
ACT · market
Data centres in Canberra
Government-anchored demand and a dominant local operator make the ACT one of the densest markets per capita in the country.
280 MW
operating capacity
120 MW
under construction
Hume & Fyshwick
primary sub-region
Indicative estimates · public sources
Market context
The Canberra market
Canberra is a sovereign-data market shaped almost entirely by Commonwealth government, defence and intelligence demand rather than commercial cloud. That concentration of certified, security-cleared workloads gives the ACT an outsized capacity footprint for its population, clustered in the Hume and Fyshwick industrial precincts. A single home-grown operator anchors the market, with national players maintaining a presence to serve federal customers (indicative). Sovereign AI workloads, secure connectivity and 100% renewable energy underpin demand, with CDC anchoring the market alongside Macquarie Technology, Equinix and NEXTDC, and energy efficiency and high-redundancy cooling suiting certified government workloads.
3 known data centres in Canberra
Full directoryKnown existing facilities in the Canberra market, compiled from public operator records. Capacity is shown where the operator has published it.
Power · grid · water
What limits new data centre capacity in Canberra
Capacity on the Evoenergy network, not land, is the binding constraint on new Canberra capacity.
Capacity connects through Evoenergy on a comparatively contained ACT network, and the territory's electricity has been matched 100% by renewables since 2020, sourced mainly through long-term large-scale wind contracts plus solar in and around the region, which is a genuine differentiator for buyers with low-carbon mandates. Security and resilience requirements for government workloads drive heavy investment in redundancy and backup generation, while the cooler climate eases the cooling and water load relative to northern metros.
Indicative · compiled from public sources
The Canberra data centre pipeline
Planning, grid and tender activity in ACT, by build stage, tracked from public records. Site names and sources are available in the manually reviewed private access.
Maturity funnel 8 signals
Pre-funding 0
Planning 0
Approved 5
Construction 0
Operational 0
Operator news Unclassified
Planning Approved
Operator news Unclassified
Operator news Unclassified
Planning Approved
Stage and capacity band only. Site names and sources are available in the manually reviewed private access.
Operators with presence in Canberra
Operators with public-record presence in the Canberra market. Capacity figures are national (AU) footprint, not a Canberra-only number, and indicative.
CDC Data Centres Hyperscale
AU market profile
private · Infratil / CSC
Macquarie Technology Colocation
AU market profile
ASX:MAQ
Equinix (AU) Colocation
AU market profile
NASDAQ:EQIX · Equinix Inc.
NEXTDC Colocation
AU market profile
ASX:NXT
Data centre asset classes in Canberra
The asset types most relevant to the Canberra market right now.
Operating data centres
Income-producing colocation, hyperscale and edge facilities trading on yield and covenant.
REITs · infra funds
Powered shells
Shell-and-core buildings with power and cooling provisioned, ready for fit-out.
Operators · JV partners
AI data centre capacity
Capacity built to power and cool dense racks of accelerators, typically 50 to 150 kW per rack, with liquid cooling and a confirmed path to the power those racks demand.
Hyperscalers · operators
Data centres in Canberra, answered
How many data centres are in Canberra?
Data Centre Axis tracks 3 known existing data centres in Canberra in its public directory, against roughly 280 MW of operating capacity and 120 MW under construction (indicative figures from public sources). That covers colocation, wholesale and hyperscale digital infrastructure. Planning and grid-stage projects are tracked privately and released to verified members.
What types of data centre are in Canberra?
The Canberra market spans colocation facilities, wholesale and hyperscale data centres, and a growing set of AI-ready sites built for high power density measured in megawatts. The mix of digital infrastructure and the available power differ site by site.
What is the largest data centre in Canberra?
Among the facilities we track publicly, NEXTDC C1 Canberra operated by NEXTDC is the largest by published capacity, at about 4.4 MW. It is one of several large data centre sites in the Canberra market; capacity is operator-published where available and indicative otherwise.
Which operators run data centres in Canberra?
Operators with public-record presence in the Canberra market include CDC Data Centres, Macquarie Technology, Equinix (AU), NEXTDC. See the operators directory for the full list and each operator's footprint.
How do I find, lease or buy data centre capacity in Canberra?
Data Centre Axis works privately with buyers, operators and funds to source Canberra sites, powered land and data centre capacity, and to assemble diligence from planning, grid, water and fibre records. Get verified to start a mandate.
Source or assess a site in Canberra.
The Site Finder indexes 683,150 land parcels across all 8 Australian jurisdictions, screened against published network capacity. ACT candidates are then weighed on land, power, environmental and servicing evidence.