PDG linked to A$1b, 100MW Campbelltown data centre in Sydney's southwest
Singapore-based Princeton Digital Group appears to be the client for a proposed 100MW data centre in Campbelltown, where NSW planning papers describe investment above A$1 billion. It would be PDG's first facility in Australia.
Planning documents lodged with the New South Wales government tie Princeton Digital Group (PDG) to a proposed A$1 billion data centre in Sydney's southwest. Drawings prepared by AECOM and filed with a request for state environmental assessment requirements label a 100-megawatt project at 192 Narellan Road, Campbelltown, as "PDG Project Genesis" and list PDG as the client. If built, it would be the Singapore operator's first step into the Australian market.
The planning portal application is lodged by Sydney residential developer Morehuman Property Group, which engaged Patch Planning to write the scoping report. Neither PDG nor Morehuman answered a request for comment. Separately, an ACCC filing dated 30 March shows Princeton Digital Group Australia is buying vacant Campbelltown land from MH Property No. 1 to build, own and run a data centre, and the regulator granted a waiver on 21 April.
The 12.71-hectare site sits within the Maryfields Estate, which has been rezoned for business park, housing and seniors living. The scoping report sets out two buildings built in stages: one with two storeys at 26 metres and another with three storeys at 30 metres. That exceeds the 15-metre height cap in the local environmental plan, and the developer says the added height is needed to hide rooftop plant such as chillers, cooling towers and generator flues behind acoustic screening. A planning proposal lodged with Campbelltown City Council asks for the limit to be lifted to 30 metres.
The report says Endeavour Energy made a connection offer in December 2025 covering three stages of supply, built around a 66-kilovolt switching station on the site that the developer would fund. Sydney Water has agreed in principle to provide interim potable water, moving to fully recycled cooling water by late 2031. By contrast, Sydney Water told the department in April that it could not back Goodman's Project Mars without further study of the local supply zone, and Goodman withdrew its A$798 million application for the 81MW facility in September after heavy resident opposition.
Project Genesis would depend on 78 emergency generators, bulk diesel storage and lithium-ion batteries, although the report gives no figure for diesel held on site. It projects 900 to 1,100 ongoing jobs at full build-out, and says the project answers contracted demand from cloud providers, government agencies and enterprises, none of which are named. A site context map places the facility near Bethlehem Monastery, residential and seniors living zones, a proposed hotel, Western Sydney University and TAFE.
PDG chairman and chief executive Rangu Salgame told Mingtiandi the company is assessing sites in Sydney and Melbourne after hiring Scott Thomas as general manager, but he did not say which Sydney site. Salgame said existing customers urged PDG to expand into Australia and South Korea. PDG, backed by Warburg Pincus, Mubadala and Stonepeak, reports more than 1.8 gigawatts of capacity across eight Asia Pacific markets.
The assessment-requirements request is the opening stage of the state process, after which an environmental impact statement doubles as the development application and goes on public exhibition. NSW released a Data Centre Policy Framework in August with a 75-day assessment target for qualifying projects, and National Cabinet endorsed mandatory national standards on 26 August, with the Commonwealth committing to legislate in early 2027. IDCNOVA reported that approval is unlikely before those standards arrive.