Goodman Reveals Titanic $5bn Data Centre for Sydney’s West

The Goodman rollout of mega-sized data centres continues with a SEARs request filed for the $5-billion Project Atlas.

Weighing in at 500MVA and with a gross floor area of 99,310sq m across two buildings of three and four storeys, the Eastern Creek proposal is the latest in a slew of multibillion-dollar server sheds from the industrial developer and manager.

The 17ha site at 10 Roberts Road, about 35km west of the Sydney CBD, is bounded by SP2 Infrastructure zoned land intended for electricity transmission and distribution, and for water supply services.

Discussions with Transgrid about connections to an adjoining substation, and with Sydney Water about availability and connections, are under way.

Nearby is a $1.5-billion, 200MW CDC data centre at 17 Roberts Road opened in 2022 and a Mapletree-owned, Coles-tenanted 55,395sq m chilled distribution centre sits at 3 Roberts Road.

Coles had previously occupied a 74,000sq m facility at the site of the Goodman proposal. When marketed for sublease by JLL in 2024, it was advertised as “Australia's largest freestanding corporate distribution facility”.

The project’s hefty construction phase would generate 2323 jobs, 162 during operations. About 3000 tonnes of diesel—3440kl—would be stored on-site for 246 backup generators.

In its 2025 annual report, Goodman reported operating profit growth of 12.8 per cent to $2.3 billion, across a portfolio worth $85.6 billion (with growth of 8.8 per cent).

▲ Once deemed among the country’s largest warehouses, the site would host a $5-billion Goodman data centre under the proposal.

Of the $12.9 billion in the development pipeline, 57 per cent was attributed to data centres, or about $7.353 billion. 130MW worth of server space had been completed by the close of the 2024-25 financial year, with 5GW of power secured or in negotiations across 13 cities globally.

The availability of energy for data centres is a factor in the speed of their rollout. In January, Origin Energy committed to extending the life of the 2.8GW Eraring coal plant, in the Hunter Valley, to 2029. However, that decision was in part due to the unavailability of ancillary system services providing grid stability, rather than a shortfall in energy supply.

Meanwhile, a request for SEARs was filed in September 2025 for a 50-fold upscaling of on-site gas-fired generation capacity at the Southern Highlands Data Campus at 30 Douglas Road in Moss Vale, about 115km south-west of the Sydney CBD.

▲ The Southern Highlands Data Campus uses rainwater, stored in tanks on-site, to reduce reliance on utility water.

That application, filed by site owner Nakar Property, would yield 18 gas-fired generation halls producing 36.3MW each for a total of 673.2MW of behind-the-meter supply, to power a future expansion of data facilities at the campus.

An application for a data centre on one of 11 lots was approved in 2021. That first data centre has been built, but subdivision has not been pursued, and a DA for a second data centre was approved in September 2025. In 2024, another application was approved for 14MW of gas-fired generation capacity.

Alternative fuel sources of solar, wind, batteries, biogas and hydrogen were explored but discarded as not capable of providing the scale and reliability of baseload supply necessary for the campus.