Project Ares wants to build a 1 GW data centre on a cattle station on Australia's Top End and power it with 3 GW of solar and a 16 GWh battery. It also wants to build a giga-scale gas plant.

Energy North has submitted a proposed 1GW hyperscale data centre campus with a co-located 16GWh BESS to Australia's EPBC Act.

The proposed 19,150-hectare 'Project Ares' would be built by Energy North on Murranji Station in the Barkly Region, as up to 12 proponents eye the NT for data centres.