Green Compute at the Edge - Geraldton Sundowner

The GreenTech Hub is heading to Geraldton on August 5th as a part of our upcoming Innovation Challenge Green Compute at the Edge: Sustainable digital infrastructure from regional WA to the world. After a closed morning workshop, we're opening up the afternoon to the innovation and industry community and welcome you to join us from 4:00pm for a sundowner at Pollinators with drinks, canapes, live music, and real conversations with the people shaping WA's green economy.

If you're someone in industry, energy, technology, engineering, research, government and the startup ecosystem with an interest in green compute and what's next for the regional WA green economy, we'd love to see you there. Join the regional stakeholders who will be on hand to share local opportunities, constraints and expectations — grounding the discussion in what it will actually take to deliver competitive, sustainable projects that support regional prosperity.

When

Date: August 5th 2026

Sundowner: 4:00pm-6:00pm - hosted at Pollinators with drinks, canapes and live music provided

We look forward to welcoming you on August 5th in GeraldtonI

The GreenTech Hub team

Please note: If you are at attendee of the Ecosystem Workshop already, it is not necessary to register for the sundowner as a separate event.

Innovation Challenge - Green Compute at the Edge

Regional WA sits at a rare convergence: world-class solar and wind resources, geopolitical stability, digital sovereignty, vast buildable land, and direct fibre connections to fast-growing Indo-Pacific markets. Our opportunity isn’t simply to attract data centres, it’s to build them differently. Next-generation facilities powered by 100% renewables, with net-positive water use, waste heat reused by local industries, and jobs and lasting economic value that stay in regional communities. Not infrastructure that extracts. Infrastructure that gives back. 

The following areas have been identified as key potential innovation areas to explore through this Innovation Challenge:

Energy Integration

Innovations in microgrids, behind-the-meter renewable systems, long-duration storage, and flexible load management that enable data centres to operate with genuinely low-carbon energy profiles, rather than relying on fossil fuel backup.

Cooling and Water Use

Liquid cooling, seawater cooling in coastal locations, warm-water cooling systems, and waste heat recovery models that reduce water consumption, improve efficiency, and lower environmental impact in WA's specific climate context.

Shared and Enabling Infrastructure

Shared substation, cooling, water, fibre backhaul, and access infrastructure that improve project viability for multiple users, reduce duplication, and enable regional development at scale.

Heat Reuse and Regional Industry

Systems that turn data centre waste heat into a productive regional asset, supporting desalination, industrial processing, protected agriculture, aquaculture, or mineral processing.

Siting and Integrated Design

New planning, coordination, and design frameworks that bring together land planning, energy, cooling, connectivity, environmental considerations, and regional development objectives — particularly in emerging precincts such as the Mid-West.