Australia's data centre pipeline is constrained less by capital than by delivery — sites that can actually be powered, approvals that hold, and programmes that survive contact with utilities, councils, and contractors. Maraj Advisory Group provides owner-side advisory across the full data centre development lifecycle.
The data centre sector's defining constraint is no longer demand — it is the ability to identify genuinely deliverable sites and move them through acquisition, connection, approval, and construction faster than the competition. That is a development management problem, and it rewards the disciplines we have practised for decades: forensic due diligence, honest feasibility, stakeholder navigation, and delivery oversight that holds programmes together.
We act exclusively on the owner's side of the table. We are not brokers, agents, or contractors — our advice is independent, and our incentives are aligned with one outcome: a project that gets delivered on the terms you underwrote.
Powered Land · Grid & Utilities · Land Assembly
Finding data centre sites that are genuinely deliverable — not just zoned and listed. We identify and assess sites against the criteria that determine whether a project can proceed: grid capacity and connection pathway, zoning and land-use permissibility, water and fibre availability, flood and easement constraints, and acquisition structures that protect the buyer through the diligence period.
Financial Modelling · Capital Structuring · Investment Cases
Data centre feasibility lives or dies on assumptions that most models get wrong — connection timelines, staging, escalation, and the true cost of delay. Our feasibility work interrogates those assumptions and produces analysis that stands up to lender and investment-committee scrutiny. With over a decade structuring development finance from the lender's side of the desk, we understand exactly how financiers assess infrastructure development risk — and how to present a project so it gets funded.
Land Use Approvals · Utilities & Government · Community
Data centre approvals sit at the intersection of planning schemes written for a different era, utilities managing unprecedented connection queues, and communities with legitimate questions about noise, water, and visual impact. We manage that intersection — coordinating planning consultants, engaging with councils and state agencies, and running the stakeholder process so approvals arrive intact and on programme.
Project Direction · Procurement · Delivery Oversight
For clients who need hands-on delivery capability, we act as owner's representative or independent project director across the development lifecycle — coordinating consultants, running procurement, and holding contractors to programme, cost, and quality. Our development management is grounded in real construction experience: our principal is a registered builder with a personal delivery track record, not a report-writer.
Maraj Advisory Group built its reputation on complex, multi-stakeholder housing projects — developments involving government funding, community housing providers, and difficult planning negotiations. Data centre development calls on the same core skills: working with government and utilities, structuring projects so they can be financed, and keeping delivery on programme and on budget.
Our principal spent over 13 years structuring development finance in commercial banking and was engaged by a state government authority to independently assess deliverability across a $200M+ funding round. We understand how lenders assess projects, how government makes decisions, and what it takes to get a project built.
Alongside client advisory, Maraj Advisory Group selectively originates and leads the development of data centre and infrastructure projects as principal — partnering with landowners, capital, and operators to take well-positioned sites from concept through connection, approvals, and delivery. Our engagements are typically conducted under confidentiality; recent and current work spans the full lifecycle of the services above.
Originated and led by Maraj Advisory Group from first principles: site strategy, power and fibre connection pathways, state government engagement, and anchor tenant and capital partner discussions. Staged capacity pathway to 400MW+, target construction commencement 2027, subject to approvals.
Staged financial modelling, scenario analysis, and capital structuring advice supporting owner-side investment decisions on data centre and infrastructure projects.
Approvals pathway management, utility and agency coordination, and independent development management through the delivery phase of infrastructure projects.