Amazon appears to have shelved plans for a 40MW data center in Sydney, Australia.

A planning application for the data center, at 52 Turner Road, Sydney, has been withdrawn by engineering firm Arup.

Details of the data center and its ties to Amazon were first reported in February.

The project was expected to cost around AU$50 million (US$32.38m), and include emergency backup generators, a cooling plant, diesel and lithium-ion battery storage, and an electrical substation and associated infrastructure, according to planning documents.

The new data center was expected to be a part of the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) cloud region, which launched in 2012. Amazon has owned the land on Turner Road since 2022, and already has a data center nearby.

DCD has contacted the company for more details on why the planning application has been withdrawn.

Amazon seems to be pressing ahead with a data center campus in West Sydney, which it first announced in June 2023.

Dubbed "Project Echidna," the AU$300 million (US$200m) project would see a two-story facility developed, which would offer 35.2MW of capacity across 9,225 sqm (99,300 sq ft).

The planning application for this development remains active awaiting a decision.

Elsewhere in Australia, the company is planning a $50m data center on a 13.2-hectare site at 54-80 Ferris Road, Cobblebank, about 40km west of Melbourne’s center.