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

REQUIRES VERIFICATIONModerate confidence

Port Hedland / Boodarie Strategic Industrial Area

Boodarie SIA

Industrial energy system.

port-hedland locationCompare

Site zoom

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 · Port Hedland / Boodarie Strategic Industrial Area

Approximate pad · not a cadastral survey

Deliverable MW

Announced is not deliverable

Today

High confidence

1–2 MW

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

3 years

Preliminary

1–50 MW

A step-up is conceivable only with dedicated generation. Not evidenced.

5 years

Preliminary

50–250 MW

Industrial-energy colocation scenario. Competing HBI/hydrogen load is the evidenced demand.

10 years

Preliminary

100–500 MW

Only with a dedicated generation and water story. Speculative.

  • Pilbara is one of the world's largest industrial energy systems. That is not a published surplus for AI training.
  • Existing compute is edge (PH1 1.5 MW) with cyclone and 55 °C condenser design.
  • Vocus Horizon now gives a second long-haul to Perth and a path toward DJSC.

Time to power

Earliest is not likely

Earliest plausible energisation

Preliminary

2031

Requires dedicated generation FID.

Likely energisation

Unverified

Not dated

No hyperscale project.

NWIS cannot be treated like a NEM connection queue. You bring generation or you do not build.

Why here

  • Industrial energy system.
  • Port.
  • Horizon fibre change in 2026.
  • 4,000 ha SIA.

What is missing

  • Spare MW.
  • Water.
  • A compute proponent at scale.
  • Workforce housing at campus scale.

Workload fit

  • Industrial / mining AIFitsThis is the product: mine-gate, port, autonomous systems. PH1 already points there.
  • AI training / HPCConditionalColocation with industrial energy is the hypothesis. Surplus MW is not shown.
  • Edge / regionalFitsPH1 is the existence proof at 1.5 MW.
  • AI inferenceFailsWrong population geography.
  • Cloud / hyperscaleFailsNot an AZ geography unless a hyperscaler decides otherwise with its own power.
  • Sovereign / defenceUnknownNot the primary evidenced demand.

Energy

A 210 MW station on the map is not 210 MW for sale to a training cluster.

Grid / NSP
North West Interconnected System (isolated) · Horizon Power / Alinta (confirm per connection)
Substation / voltage
Alinta 210 MW station is on the SIA. Spare MVA not published. · Industrial. Not offered for a campus.
Generation
Gas, with renewable and hydrogen narratives in the Pilbara. Not contracted to compute.
BESS / gas / RE
Not evidenced on this object. APA pipeline traverses the estate. Pilbara RE corridors exist as a regional story. Not a campus PPA.

Required for scale

  • 100 MWPreliminary

    Dedicated generation, not a tap on Alinta 210 MW.

  • 250 MWUnverified

    A power station, water, and a fibre design beyond PH1.

Fibre

Horizon 2,000 km Perth–Port Hedland, 38 Tbps stated, with a path to DJSC. This is the 2026 change.

  • Perth: 20 ms · Regional estimate via Horizon.
  • Singapore: 40 ms · Geography is closer than Sydney; not a measured SLA.
  • Sydney: 50 ms · Via Perth or Darwin paths.

Thermal / hazards

Hot desert / cyclone coast.

Heat is an energy penalty. The industrial energy system is the offset — if it is actually available.

Cyclone: Design-level. PH1 used tie-downs and debris protection as an existence proof at 1.5 MW.

Development

landControl
State SIA process. Resource processors already allocated.
planning
Strategic Industry. Compute would be a new use in a processing estate.
environmental
Industrial estate. Lot-level assessment required.
approvalStatus
SIA exists. Hyperscale compute not applied for.
remediation
Not a Qenos RAP story. Confirm per lot.
contamination
Industrial. Confirm.
tenure
SIA allocation.
construction
Resource-processing pipeline, not DC.

Risk

  • demand

    Iron processing and hydrogen are the evidenced land uses.

  • power

    Isolated system. Bring your own generation at scale.

Graph

  • boodarie — NEAR → Port Hedland
  • boodarie — CONNECTED_TO → Alinta 210 MW
  • boodarie — SUPPORTED_BY → Vocus Horizon

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