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1. What’s happening

The NSW Government is proposing the redevelopment of the Kogarah Golf Club into a major logistics site and data centre. Submissions to the NSW Gov. Major Projects Planning Portal Portal closed July 7, 2026. See the NSW Gov planning portal page.

If the project goes ahead in it’s current form, it will look like this

What is a data centre?

A data centre is a physical facility that houses computing infrastructure to store, process, and manage digital data for businesses, governments, and other organisations.

What are data centres and what do they mean for regional Victoria?

Why care?

People are increasingly opposing data centres because their physical, environmental, and economic costs are local and immediate, while their benefits often feel distant. Server farms are massive, warehouse-style facilities that create local disruptions without providing significant community advantages. Harvard Gazette +2 Data centres:

• Consume massive amounts of energy, water and land. It’s early days but the research is clear and BAD.
• Run 24 hours a day, seven days a week, draw on enormous quantities of power and water, and have significant impacts on the local environment, liveability, air quality and community health.
• ↑ 26% wholesale electricity price rise in NSW, and 23% rise in Victoria by 2035 if data centre demand is met with gas, not renewables.

5 ways data centers endanger their local communities and the country as a whole

How data centres sound

Imagine this sound 800 metres from your house 24/7:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DZrWAbnB4tY/?hl=en

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/88FVgX3WPbk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAliBRyq_1c