Project Ares Hyperscale Data Centre Campus

planned

Project Ares is a proposed hyperscale data centre campus to be built on Murranji Station in the Northern Territory's Barkly Region. The campus will cover 19,150 hectares with approximately 90 hectares of data halls, offering a total computing capacity of 1 gigawatt and operating for more than 25 years. It will operate entirely off-grid using solar and gas-fired electricity, with solar infrastructure spanning 6,000 to 7,000 hectares. Water for cooling and potable use will be drawn from the Montejinni Limestone Aquifer. The project includes plans for a temporary workers' village for up to 4,300 staff, a 2-kilometre sealed airstrip, and dedicated rail infrastructure. At full operation, it will employ up to 500 full-time workers.