AI Data Center List

Firmus Project Southgate (Melbourne)

AI data center in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, operated by Firmus.

Firmus's Project Southgate AI factory in Melbourne, hosted at a CDC campus, with 18,400 Nvidia GB300 GPUs for a global hyperscale customer. Part of a wider Southgate build across Tasmania and mainland Australia.

Live power
41MW 3 Epoch AI estimate, as of 2026-08-09
Planned power
— Not published
Status
Operational First power 2026
Accelerators
18,400 Stated by the company

Power: what each source says

No MW published by Firmus for Melbourne. Epoch AI estimates 41 MW IT operational ~2026-08-09 (estimate).

Figures labelled Epoch AI are estimates from satellite imagery, permits and filings. Company figures come from the operator, owner or its filings. IT power is what the servers draw; in Epoch AI’s figures for these campuses it runs about 15–35% below total facility power.

Tenants

Undisclosed global hyperscale customer

Campus facts

Operator
Firmus 1
Owner / developer
Firmus (CDC Data Centres as host, per Epoch AI) 1
City
Melbourne 1
State / region
Victoria 1
Country
Australia 1
First power
2026 1
Chips
NVIDIA GB300 1
GPUs / accelerators
18,400 1
Cooling
Not published
Power source
grid 1
Coordinates
37.81° S, 144.96° E (town level)
Verified

Sources

  1. Firmus: multi-year agreement with global hyperscale customer at Project Southgate accessed 2026-11-09
  2. Firmus expands Project Southgate across Australia accessed 2026-11-09
  3. Epoch AI, AI data centers dataset (CC-BY 4.0, updated 2026-11-06) (licence: CC BY 4.0) accessed 2026-11-09