A map with labels, not false certainty

Records

• Primary sources first. Records are built by hand from planning registers, operator announcements, government reports and reputable reporting. Records whose only source is a database we don't republish are left out until they're re-sourced (16 at present).
• Record types. A facility is one building or site (94), a campus several buildings on one site (58), and a portfolio a group of sites shown as one pin (10).
• Evidence grades. SOLID means a primary document or direct operator disclosure confirms the record (122 of 162). REPORTED means it rests on a credible secondary source or an applicant's own description (40). A planning portal publishing a proposal doesn't verify its capacity.
• Check dates. Every record shows the date it was last checked. 105 of the 162 records were last checked on 21 October 2026; the rest between 24 July 2026 and 27 October 2026.
• Locations are approximate. Pins sit at suburb, precinct or regional level, never at entrances or equipment.

Statuses

• Operational operating today, according to the operator or a primary source (76)
• Under construction construction has started (16)
• Committed approved or otherwise committed, but construction isn't confirmed (19)
• Proposed announced or lodged for approval (41)
• Contested a material public, planning or community dispute is documented (not a prediction) (5)
• SEARs expired the planning requirements lapsed; not a refusal or a withdrawal (1)
• Withdrawn withdrawn by the applicant, kept for the record (4)

Status is RegularsAI's reading of the best available source. An approval isn't evidence of construction, and a proposal isn't a working facility.

Capacity

Capacity is shown as the source states it. Published figures may be IT load, total site demand, a grid connection or an ultimate build-out, so they are never added together. 95 of the 162 records state a megawatt figure.

The NSW planning register

The NSW Major Projects register lists State significant data centre applications ("Data Storage"). The portal shows each application's current stage, not how it got there. Since 8 October 2026 we check the register's data centre list daily, capture each project page weekly, keep a dated copy of every capture and compare them, so a stage change is dated when we first see it (the portal may have changed a little earlier). The register was last checked on 2 November 2026.

Data centres approved by councils aren't on this register, so NSW counts are a floor, not every approval.

The approval clock dates each milestone from the project page, the upload time the portal stamps on each document, the department's own assessment reports, or our captures, and counts a duration only where both ends are dated. Public submissions are never read.

NSW register data: NSW Major Projects register (State significant development, "Data Storage"), © State of New South Wales and Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure, CC BY 4.0; captured weekly, parsed and compared by RegularsAI. Licence: CC BY 4.0. The NSW Government does not endorse RegularsAI.