By Lisa Cox
Publication Date: 2025-11-20 14:00:00
Energy company SunCable says a massive solar farm it wants to build in the Northern Territory could power an AI data center in the region, positioning Australia as a world leader in “green industrial development”.
The development would be Australia’s largest solar farm and would generate up to 20 GW of electricity, ten times the output of a large coal-fired power station. This would complement the company’s plans to build a 12,000-hectare solar farm at Powell Creek Station, south of Elliott, as part of its planned Australia-Asia Power Link project.
The proposed development at Muckaty Station in the Barkly region would clear an estimated 50,000 hectares of land – the equivalent of about 25,000 MCGs – including vital habitat for the bilby’s survival, according to documents lodged by SunCable with the NT Environment Protection Authority.
SunCable CEO Ryan Willemsen-Bell said the company’s combined NT developments were “a compelling proposition to attract…”
