Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has launched its “Supernode” project, one of the largest permit-approved data storage-campus projects in the Southern Hemisphere. The project also will host one of the largest battery-storage installations in the Australian National Electricity Market.
The 30-hectare (74-acre) project site is located adjacent to the South Pine substation at Brendale, the central node of the Queensland Electricity Network. Supernode will be a multi-tenant campus with as many as four hyperscale data centers that will connect directly to the adjacent South Pine substation, offering as much as 800 megawatts of power-supply capacity and featuring three separate high-voltage transmission connections.
In addition, it will intersect the new Torus dark fiber data cable under construction and will directly connect Brisbane for the first time to an international subsea cable.
The planned hyperscale data storage and BESS infrastructure will represent an