In the shadow of one of Sydney's newest metro stations, a battle over land, purpose, and the meaning of infrastructure is quietly unfolding. NextDC, one of Australia's largest data centre operators, has proposed a 65-metre industrial fortress at Macquarie Park — a site the public has already invested in as a seed for dense, human-centred urban growth. The company's chief executive, pressed on live radio to say plainly whether the project serves the community, declined to answer — leaving the deeper question, what cities are actually for, to the planning process and to us.