Australian data centres: interactive market explorer

Operating capacity to 2030, with one measurement basis on the axis

Three 2030 anchors grown from the 2025 operating base. Four houses publish a megawatt count of Australian data centre capacity for 2025 and no two of them count the same megawatts, so this chart holds one basis at a time and refuses a second.

Move a driver and watch the outputs move

Each control below is a workbook input cell. The outputs recompute from the same formulas the workbook holds. While every control sits at its published value the outputs equal the cells they name; move one and the outputs are labelled as a reader's scenario for as long as it differs.

Where the megawatts are, and where the announced ones would go

Operating megawatts are commissioned capacity on the national operating IT load series. Pipeline megawatts are what a developer has announced for a project. Those are two measurements, so they are drawn on two axes and the crossing between them is stated as a ratio.

Four counts of Australian capacity in 2025, and no published bridge between them

Each row is a megawatt figure for the same country in the same year. They are set out as a table and not as a chart because a shared axis would assert a comparability that no publisher supports.

Which driver moves 2030 the most

Each driver is varied alone between its low and high value, against its own model base. Every bar is a change in megawatts of operating IT load, so the four are comparable with each other.

Two revenue measures, one axis at a time

The published series counts hosting and data-processing services revenue on the ANZSIC classes. The upper bound prices every operating megawatt at retail colocation rates. They measure different things and the distance between them is the size of what the ANZSIC scope leaves out.

The project universe, filterable and sortable

The bars and the tiles above are summed from these rows at load, so the chart and the table cannot part company. Two rows disclose no megawatts and contribute nothing to any total.

Data centre land comparable sales by precinct

Ten transactions from December 2024 to November 2025, against a 2021 benchmark on the same measure. Powered land is pricing away from general industrial land.

Who owns what

No house publishes an audited share of operational megawatts, so the operating figures here are triangulations and are flagged as estimates. Conflicting transaction multiples are shown on both bases with the basis named against each.

Every figure on this page against the cell that governs it

Sources cited on this page

Numbered to match the workbook Source_Log and the research dossier. Each entry carries the publisher and the date the publisher put on the work. A page that can change without this page changing carries a retrieval date instead, labelled as one.

Data gaps behind the figures on this page

What could not be verified, and what would close it. A figure that depends on one of these rows names the row.