Greenpeace report warns AI data centre boom threatens Australia's renewable energy transition
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Summary
A new report from Greenpeace Australia Pacific and expert Ketan Joshi reveals that the rapid rollout of AI data centres in Australia threatens to derail the renewable energy transition, entrench gas dependence, and increase climate pollution. The proposed Mamre Rd data centre in Sydney, if approved, would be the largest in Australia and generate peak annual grid emissions equivalent to 560,000 petrol cars. The report calls for urgent government intervention to regulate the data centre boom.
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If approved, the data centre will be the biggest in Australia and will generate peak annual grid emissions equivalent to that produced by 560,000 petrol cars
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