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SITE-AU-NSW-BOTANY-QENOS-001

REQUIRES VERIFICATIONModerate confidence

Botany Industrial Park — former Qenos

Qenos Botany · 16–20B Beauchamp Road, Banksmeadow

Sydney demand.

sydney locationCompare

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Sentinel-2 and live meteo

Cloudless mosaic on the pad, latest L2A granule, and Open-Meteo dry/wet bulb. Live weather is not a design-day and does not replace a climate study.

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2024 · Botany Industrial Park — former Qenos

Approximate pad · not a cadastral survey

Deliverable MW

Announced is not deliverable

Today

High confidence

0 MW

No DC connection evidenced.

3 years

Unverified

Not verified

Remediation is the near-term programme.

5 years

Preliminary

50–200 MW

Sydney capacity is strategically scarce. That does not make this parcel deliverable.

10 years

Preliminary

50–250 MW

Upper bound is a scenario after contamination and airport constraints are resolved.

  • Sydney compute demand is real. Botany is inside that demand geography.
  • Contamination (CHC, PHC, PFAS, asbestos) is evidenced and is a first-order gate.
  • Sydney Airport OLS, port operations and community process are additional gates.
  • Colliers commentary listed data centre among possible future uses for industrial land in the park. That is a broker comment, not a project.

Time to power

Earliest is not likely

Earliest plausible energisation

Preliminary

2031

Assumes remediation, a new use DA, and a connection path.

Likely energisation

Unverified

Not dated

No compute project exists to hang a likely date on.

Remediation and airport/port constraints sit in front of any electrical programme.

Why here

  • Sydney demand.
  • Port and subsea geography.
  • Industrial brownfield that is actually turning over.

What is missing

  • RAP completion.
  • Owner compute intent.
  • A grid offer.
  • Airport-compatible envelope.

Workload fit

  • AI inferenceConditionalBest metro-Sydney inference geography in this set, gated by contamination and airport.
  • Cloud / hyperscaleConditionalStrategic Sydney capacity, but parcel scale and constraints are unresolved.
  • Sovereign / defenceConditionalSydney sovereign cloud is a possible use.
  • AI training / HPCFailsTraining-scale MW and community/airport constraints are a poor match.
  • Edge / regionalFitsMetro-edge / port-adjacent.
  • Industrial / mining AIFailsNot a resource basin.

Energy

Infrastructure existed for petrochemical load. Connectable spare MW is not verified.

Grid / NSP
NEM NSW · Ausgrid / Transgrid (parcel-level NSP not verified)
Substation / voltage
Historic industrial supply; spare MVA not published. · Not verified for the Qenos parcel.
Generation
Metro NSW. Not generation-rich.
BESS / gas / RE
None on site evidenced. Industrial park utilities exist; reuse not verified. No on-site REZ.

Required for scale

  • 100 MWPreliminary

    Completed RAP, DC planning pathway, and a real Ausgrid/Transgrid offer.

Fibre

Port Botany / Sydney metro. Subsea landings are in the Sydney geography, not on this parcel.

  • Sydney CBD: 5 ms · Metro estimate.
  • Melbourne: 12 ms · Intercapital typical.
  • Singapore: — ms · Via Sydney CLS. Not measured from this lot.

Thermal / hazards

Temperate coastal Sydney.

Bay-adjacent heat rejection is a hypothesis. Zero municipal water remains the conservative default.

Cyclone: Not a cyclone geography.

Development

landControl
Qenos under administration; ESR/LAOP pathway. Re-verify title before reliance.
planning
Demolition DA approved May 2025 (stages 1–2). Remediation DA in preparation Oct 2025. No compute DA.
environmental
CHC, PHC, PFAS, asbestos evidenced.
approvalStatus
Demolition approved. Compute not applied for.
remediation
Required. RAP-driven.
contamination
CHCs, PHCs, PFAS, asbestos.
tenure
Industrial park, multiple owners.
construction
Demolition commenced/handed over to demolition contractors in 2025 reporting.

Risk

  • environmental

    PFAS and chlorinated hydrocarbons are evidenced. Residual risk will shape use and timeline.

  • planning

    Sydney Airport height and lighting constraints sit over this geography.

  • power

    Sydney metro power is constrained in several catchments. Parcel-level spare MW is unpublished.

Graph

  • botany — IN → Sydney
  • botany — NEAR → Port Botany
  • botany — CONSTRAINED_BY → Sydney Airport

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