Should Australia pause new data centre construction? Expert perspectives on the debate
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Drew Rooke
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This article presents perspectives from five experts on whether Australia should pause the construction of new data centres. It explores the growing public debate around data centre expansion in Australia, driven by the rise of AI and cloud computing, and examines the tensions between industry demand, energy consumption, environmental concerns, and regulatory approaches.
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As data centres have grown in size and number in Australia, they have also become the subject of fierce public debate.
State and federal governments, as well as the tech industry, are pushing for new data centres to be rap
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