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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

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Capacity: announced vs energized

Contracted
not recorded
Under construction
not recorded
Energized
not recorded

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.

79th-largest announced of 106 tracked campuses29th percentile announced-to-energized gap≈ 233,000 homes of power at full announced capacity (basis)
Project Southgate (Bell Bay, Tasmania) capacity claims
Source
Announced0.29 GW2025-10-16reportedjournalist report

Key facts

under construction

Lifecycle

0.29 GW

Announced

0 GW

Energized

Sustainable Metal Cloud

Developer

Bell Bay, Tasmania, Australia

Location

TasNetworks

Grid

0.29 GW

Announced-to-energized gap

Reported facts

Structured facts sourced from citations already on this record. Each fact traces to a source in the References section below.

Site and power (company-claimed)
Former Gunns pulp mill site at Bell Bay; about 288 MW from three 220 kV TasNetworks lines.
Buildings and cooling (company-claimed)
Two AI data halls with HyperCube direct-to-chip liquid cooling for NVIDIA GB300 and Vera Rubin.
Water use (company-claimed)
Cooling water needed about 10 days a year above 26C; about 50 households' annual use.
Jobs (company-claimed)
115+ permanent staff once operating.
Council approval (reported, Aug 2026)
George Town Council approved the 288 MW data centre 6-1.
CDC partnership ended (reported, Oct 2026)
CDC Data Centres and Firmus dissolved their Project Southgate partnership earlier in 2026.

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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

  2. Aug 2026
    party added
    chip_supplier: NVIDIA
  3. Nov 2026
    Current: Under construction

Sources

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.

Common questions

What is Project Southgate (Bell Bay, Tasmania)?
Project Southgate (Bell Bay, Tasmania) is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Bell Bay, Tasmania, Australia. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
How much power will Project Southgate (Bell Bay, Tasmania) use?
Project Southgate (Bell Bay, Tasmania) has 0.29 GW of announced capacity on the DEPLOY registry; no energized capacity is yet recorded. Each figure is individually dated and sourced.
Who is building Project Southgate (Bell Bay, Tasmania)?
Sustainable Metal Cloud is recorded as a party to Project Southgate (Bell Bay, Tasmania) on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is Project Southgate (Bell Bay, Tasmania) operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Project Southgate (Bell Bay, Tasmania) is under construction. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on Project Southgate (Bell Bay, Tasmania)?
This record has been checked against its cited sources by automated agents for the indexed registry; it has not been individually reviewed by a person. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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Cite this page

DEPLOY. (2026). Project Southgate (Bell Bay, Tasmania): AI data center campus record. Retrieved November 11, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/firmus-southgate-bell-bay-tasmania

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