Industrial AI, not a flattened CopperString slogan
Mount Isa
The Western Link is not the Eastern Link.
Longer-term minerals-province scenario.
Location zoom
Sentinel-2 and live meteo
Mount Isa / North West Minerals Province
20.730°S 139.490°E
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2024 · pad not a survey
Deliverable MW today
Moderate confidence0 MW
No evidenced compute campus.
Time to power (likely)
UnverifiedNot dated
Longer-term scenario.
Overall confidence
preliminary
SITE-AU-QLD-MOUNT-ISA-001
Why Mount Isa?
- NWMP.
- Industrial AI.
What is missing?
- A real western transmission solution.
- Fibre.
- A site.
Infrastructure class
- Proposed
North West Energy Fund / Western options
Not 330 kV to Isa.
Candidate sites
Projects
- CopperString Eastern Linkelectrical-infrastructure
Evidence
- High confidenceProposed
The Western Link is not presently a 330 kV line to Mount Isa. A $200 million North West Energy Fund is to support local generation, batteries and microgrids while Western Link options are developed.
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