[Roundtable] Wiring the Indo-Pacific: How WA Delivers Green Compute at Scale

Western Australia is rapidly emerging as a trusted green compute and data centre hub for the Indo-Pacific—backed by abundant renewables potential, space and industrial capability, political stability, and growing connectivity into Indo-Pacific. At the same time, Southeast Asia’s demand for clean, secure compute and modern data infrastructure is accelerating.

The question is no longer “why WA?”—it’s how we execute: moving from declarations to delivery, and turning green compute into a diversified, job-creating digital economy. This roundtable brings government, renewable energy and green tech experts, operators, investors, community leaders and buyers around one practical delivery plan: what gets built first, where, who pays, what approvals need to change, and what buyers must commit to—and the bottlenecks we remove to get there.

Speakers

Nils Hay

Nils Hay

Chief Executive Officer, Mid West Development Commission

Prof. Kate Brooks

Prof. Kate Brooks

Head, School of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Curtin University

Moderator

Jason McFarlane

Jason McFarlane

Director, Western Australian GreenTech Innovation Hub