The centre will sit on a 34,200 square meter site in Macquarie Park, between Talavera Road and the M2, expanding the company’s campus to a fourth data centre.

A half-hectare park will be created within the campus, repurposing a neglected industrial site and featuring an outdoor art gallery with works from local university students.

Macquarie Data Centres has secured more than eight acres in Macquarie Park, northern Sydney, for a new roughly $3 billion data centre campus operated under Macquarie Technology.

Construction is slated to start with a target completion in late 2029, pending planning approvals and regulatory processes.

The project represents a major expansion as Macquarie Technology acquired land in Sydney for a planned $3 billion data centre, in line with its broader campus development.

The development envisions a 200-megawatt campus on the site.

The acquisition and project are led by Macquarie Technology, the ASX-listed parent company.

Macquarie currently operates six data centres: two in Canberra and four in Sydney, including one in the CBD and three at Macquarie Park.

The campus is designed to support research, technology, and learning in partnership with Macquarie University, maintaining the company’s campus-style approach.

The facility could be used to train AI models, supplementing data centre use by banks, hospitals, and government agencies.

Company leadership emphasizes sovereign Australian data infrastructure for national security, arguing that critical compute should reside in Australian data centres.

Macquarie Data Centres’ CEO frames data centres as critical national infrastructure, underscoring a wave of related developments.