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Industrial energy, edge compute, not a training campus — yet

Port Hedland

AI training colocated with one of the world's largest industrial energy systems is a question, not a fact.

Boodarie is 4,000 ha of Strategic Industry with a 210 MW gas station on site and resource processors allocated. Evidenced compute is NEXTDC PH1 at 1.5 MW. Horizon fibre is the 2026 change.

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Port Hedland / Boodarie Strategic Industrial Area

20.428°S 118.551°E

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Deliverable MW today

High confidence

1–2 MW

NEXTDC PH1 planned IT capacity 1.5 MW. That is the evidenced compute.

Time to power (likely)

Unverified

Not dated

No hyperscale project.

Overall confidence

moderate

SITE-AU-WA-PORT-HEDLAND-BOODARIE-001

Why Port Hedland?

  • SIA scale.
  • Port.
  • Alinta station.
  • Horizon fibre.

What is missing?

  • Spare MW.
  • Water.
  • A hyperscale proponent.

Infrastructure class

  • Existing

    Boodarie SIA 4,000 ha

    Not vacant.

  • Existing

    Alinta 210 MW

    Nameplate ≠ spare.

  • Existing

    NEXTDC PH1

    1.5 MW planned IT.

  • Existing

    Vocus Horizon

    Perth–Port Hedland 2026.

Candidate sites

Projects

Evidence

  • VerifiedExisting

    Boodarie Strategic Industrial Area comprises 4,000 ha of Strategic Industry zoned land. Alinta Energy's 210 MW gas-fired power station operates within the SIA. POSCO and Fortescue have land allocations for resource processing.

    DevelopmentWA · Boodarie SIA overview · published n/a · accessed 2026-09-18

  • High confidenceExisting

    NEXTDC PH1 Port Hedland has a planned IT capacity of 1.5 MW. It is an edge facility for mining and port operations, not a training campus.

    NEXTDC · PH1 Port Hedland Data Centre facility overview · published n/a · accessed 2026-09-18

  • High confidenceExisting

    Vocus Horizon is a 2,000 km fibre network between Perth and Port Hedland, stated at 38 Tbps, with a path into the Darwin–Jakarta–Singapore Cable.

    w.media / Vocus · Vocus completes 2,000km Horizon fibre network linking Pilbara · published 2026-06 · accessed 2026-09-18