{"id":597663,"date":"2026-11-11T09:45:42","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T22:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=597663"},"modified":"2026-11-11T09:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T22:54:18","slug":"nextdc-pauses-uncontracted-projects-after-australian-data-centre-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=597663","title":{"rendered":"NextDC pauses uncontracted projects after Australian data centre woes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Australian data centre operator NextDC\u00a0(NXT.AX), <\/a>said on Monday \u200bit would stop work on all projects without customer contracts following a big setback \u200con a facility in Melbourne<\/a>, as two major rivals finalised buying an A$715 million ($492 million) stake in the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A suspension of work on its flagship M3 data centre expansion in Melbourne due to power delays and community backlash forced the company \u200bto cut its earnings forecasts\u00a0last month<\/a>, sending its share price tumbling 42%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does uncontracted and contracted capacity look like currently?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What NEXTDC’s published figures show<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The latest full-year figures available are for the year ended 30 June 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A few important observations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Contracted utilisation is substantially higher than the amount of infrastructure already built.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • The 565.1MW forward order book represents binding customer commitments, not speculative sales opportunities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Billing utilisation is lower because substantial contracted capacity is still being delivered or awaiting customer commencement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    This means the 112.9MW difference between built capacity and billing capacity should not be treated as uncontracted capacity. Some of it is already committed to customers but not yet billing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A suspension of work on its flagship M3 data centre expansion in Melbourne due to power delays caused a cut to company earnings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90574,"featured_media":586408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18607,12785],"tags":[993,17789],"class_list":["post-597663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-news","category-data-centre","tag-melbourne","tag-nextdc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t