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The battery between: UPS is quietly becoming the most interesting machine in the building
The uninterruptible power supply spent fifty years as one of the least discussed assets on site: power electronics backed by a room of lead-acid batteries…
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Beyond diesel: the backup question data centre assessments should be asking
Diesel generators are the part of a data centre that neighbours actually experience: the monthly test runs, the fuel deliveries and the stacks along the…
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The heat next door: data centres leave a measurable thermal footprint and almost nobody is measuring it
Every watt a data centre draws ultimately becomes heat somewhere in the system. Where that heat goes, into the local air, water, a district heating…
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The 75-day bargain: what the NSW data centre framework trades and what it leaves open
New South Wales has put numbers around data centre efficiency and attached something valuable to meeting them: speed. The result is Australia’s most substantial state-level…
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The journey of a litre: what actually happens to water inside a data centre
Water is the data centre impact communities ask about first and understand least, partly because the industry often answers with a single number when the…
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The rattle and hum: data centre noise is being measured in the wrong units
Noise is the data centre impact neighbours actually live with, yet most consent conditions measure it in units that cannot hear the problem. The fan…
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The 800-volt signal: what the shift to DC tells us about the next generation of AI infrastructure
The AI industry is rewiring its buildings. Over the next two years, the biggest new facilities will move from the alternating-current distribution that has powered…
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Would data centres use “15% of Tasmania’s grid”? What the claim does — and doesn’t — tell us
A widely repeated figure holds that the two Firmus facilities (St Leonards and Bell Bay) would together draw close to 15% of the power Tasmania’s…
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How data centre jobs are counted (and why the numbers vary so much)
Two very different job numbers are circulating about Tasmania’s proposed data centres and both can be true at the same time. This explainer sets out…
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The Office of AI: expectations are about to become obligations
The Prime Minister has announced an Office of AI inside his own department and a single national AI framework, with the March data centre expectations…