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Bomb threat forces data centre developer to ditch community forum

October 30, 2026 • 12:55 AM

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A proposed data centre by new player Quantum DC, near Tungkillo, about 60 kilometres from Adelaide, is the latest project to face huge community opposition.

Bomb threat forces data centre developer to ditch community forum

Melbourne-based data centre developer Quantum DC, which faces mounting opposition over its plan to build a large data centre near Adelaide, was forced to abandon a community drop-in meeting late on Thursday after it received a bomb threat.

Quantum DC, owned by property developer Alberto Tomassi, plans to build the Tungkillo Compute and Energy Hub, a 1.2 gigawatt facility designed to provide services to a giant hyperscaler such as Meta or Amazon .

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