Energy company SunCable says a massive solar farm it has proposed building in the Northern Territory could power an AI data centre precinct in the region to position Australia as a global leader in “green industrial development”.

The development would be Australia’s largest solar farm and would generate up to 20GW of electricity, or 10 times the output of a large coal-fired station. It would add to the company’s plans to build a 12,000 ha solar farm at Powell Creek Station south of Elliott as part of its proposed Australia-Asia Power Link project.

The proposed development at Muckaty Station in the Barkly region would clear an estimated 50,000 ha of land – the equivalent of about 25,000 MCGs – including habitat critical to the survival of the bilby, according to documents SunCable l

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