Data center campus
Project Southgate (Bell Bay, Tasmania)
Project Southgate is an AI data center campus developed by Sustainable Metal Cloud in Bell Bay, Tasmania, Australia. 0.29 GW of capacity has been announced; none is energized yet. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.
Under construction · Sustainable Metal Cloud · TasNetworks · Bell Bay, Tasmania, Australia
Capacity: announced vs energized
Announced-to-energized gap: 0.29 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.
| Source | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Announced | 0.29 GW | 2025-10-16 | reported | journalist report |
Key facts
Lifecycle
Announced
Energized
Developer
Location
Grid
Announced-to-energized gap
On the data center map
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Approximate pin. We hold a city-level coordinate for this campus, not a verified site coordinate, so the marker shows the city rather than the parcel. The satellite strip and building outlines stay off until the site coordinate is sourced.
The deal
- operator
- Sustainable Metal Cloud · Firmus / Sustainable Metal Cloud.
- construction
- CDC Data Centres · Infrastructure partner.
- grid operator
- TasNetworks · 220 kV transmission; firmed hydro/wind/solar.
- chip supplier
- NVIDIA · GB300 NVL72; DGX Cloud among first services.
Why here
Project Southgate is in Bell Bay, Tasmania, Australia. It connects to the TasNetworks grid. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.
Timeline
- Aug 2026party addedchip_supplier: NVIDIA
- Sep 2026Current: Under construction
Sources
- Project Southgate Bell Bay: FAQs · Firmus
- Firmus partners CDC on Southgate to scale to 1.6 GW · W.Media
cbdcd366-86df-4693-ba5d-e81d4a74d21d · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.
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Cite this page
DEPLOY. (2026). Project Southgate (Bell Bay, Tasmania): AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/firmus-southgate-bell-bay-tasmania
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