Starwood Teams With Doma, Telstra to Develop 62MW Sydney Data Centre

US private equity player Starwood Capital Group has partnered with Singapore’s Doma Infrastructure Group and Australian telecom giant Telstra to develop a 62-megawatt data centre in western Sydney.

Starwood and Doma will take responsibility for financing, development, construction and ongoing management of the carrier neutral data centre in Minchinbury, while the Telstra InfraCo unit will contribute the land and connectivity infrastructure, the companies said Thursday in a release.

Positioned next to the Eastern Creek data centre cluster, the Minchinbury site has received development approval and is scheduled to begin construction in early 2026 and enter service in early 2028 as a hyperscale-ready facility for artificial intelligence workloads.

“This investment underscores Starwood Capital’s commitment to supporting critical infrastructure alongside trusted local partners, while expanding our investment activity in Australia’s high-growth economy,” said Starwood president Jonathan Pollack.

Flexible Options

The Minchinbury data centre will be engineered to Tier 3 standards, which require redundant and dual-powered servers, network links and other components.

The facility plans to offer flexible delivery options — including core and shell, powered shell and build-to-suit configurations — tailored to data centre operators, hyperscalers, AI platforms and GPU-intensive computing, according to Thursday’s announcement. Support for liquid cooling and AI-native rack densities is included in the design, the companies said.

Led by CEO Clement Goh, Doma describes itself as a developer of master-planned data centre parks in Asia Pacific. Late last year the Singapore-based firm announced plans to develop 1.5 gigawatts of data centre parks in Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor.

“With hyperscale and AI infrastructure demand surging, this project arrives at the right place and the right time,” Goh said of the Minchinbury data centre. “Together with Telstra InfraCo and with the support of Starwood Capital, we’re delivering infrastructure that meets tomorrow’s compute challenges with speed, scale, and sustainability.”

Digital Ventures

Led by financier Barry Sternlicht, Starwood manages $120 billion in assets and helped privatise Asian industrial giant ESR in a $7 billion buyout in June.

Last year the Miami-based firm launched Starwood Digital Ventures, a platform dedicated to growing the fund manager’s global data centre investment strategy.

Starwood has committed more than $8 billion to data centre development, encompassing 1.5GW in various stages, making it one of the largest privately held data centre developers in the US and Europe, according to the firm.