Demand is not delivery
Sydney
Sydney is a constrained demand geography. Botany is a brownfield option inside it, not a spare 500 MW.
Metro demand, subsea landings, and planning/power constraints. Botany is the deep object.
Location zoom
Sentinel-2 and live meteo
Botany Industrial Park — former Qenos
33.957°S 151.222°E
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2024 · pad not a survey
Deliverable MW today
High confidence0 MW
No DC connection evidenced.
Time to power (likely)
UnverifiedNot dated
No compute project exists to hang a likely date on.
Overall confidence
moderate
SITE-AU-NSW-BOTANY-QENOS-001
Why Sydney?
- Demand.
- CLS geography.
- Enterprise and inference.
What is missing?
- Verified spare power in several catchments.
- A remediated, consented Botany campus.
Infrastructure class
- Existing
Sydney cloud region / IX
Demand side.
- Committed
Qenos Botany demolition
DA stages 1–2 approved May 2025.
Candidate sites
Projects
- Qenos Botany demolition and remediationconstruction
Evidence
- VerifiedExisting
Qenos entered voluntary administration on 17 April 2024. ESR, through LAOP, proposed a DOCA. Demolition DA for stages 1 and 2 was approved by Bayside Council in May 2025.
ESR / Botany Industrial Park · Botany Industrial Park community update July 2025 · published 2025-07 · accessed 2026-09-18
- High confidenceExisting
Environmental investigations identified chlorinated hydrocarbons, petroleum hydrocarbons, PFAS and asbestos in soils at the former Qenos Botany landholding.
Botany Industrial Park · Preparing for remediation works at former Qenos landholdings · published 2025-10-21 · accessed 2026-09-18