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Victoria’s action plan: three states, three models, one question
Victoria wants to be Australia’s AI capital and its Sustainable Data Centre Action Plan is the most coordinated state response yet. With South Australia legislating…
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New South Wales and the scale test: principles are the easy part
NSW hosts the largest data centre pipeline in the country and has just finished consulting on how to manage it. The five principles in the…
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Building the workforce behind the infrastructure
Data centres, networks and AI systems don’t run themselves. The harder constraint is often not capital or even energy, but people — and building the…
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Social licence isn’t a box to tick: doing community engagement properly
Large infrastructure projects rarely fail on engineering. They stall on trust. Community engagement done late, or as a formality, breeds the opposition it was meant…
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The water question: cooling data centres without draining the community
On the driest inhabited continent, any large new water user invites scrutiny — and data centres can use water to keep cool. But water use…
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Waste heat, public good: putting data centre heat to work for communities
A data centre is, in effect, a building that turns electricity into heat — and then spends more energy throwing that heat away. Captured and…
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Data centres as grid assets: the customer of last resort for renewables
Data centres are usually cast as a problem for the grid — a heavy, growing load that strains the system. The more interesting story is…
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From competing projects to coordinated strategy
Data centres, AI factories, connectivity and renewable energy are usually planned in separate lanes, one project at a time. Treated as a single, coordinated system,…
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Data centres and energy: getting the growth balance right
Data centres are among the fastest-growing users of electricity in the developed world. Handled well, that demand can drive investment and clean energy growth. Handled…
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Sovereign AI: what it means for Australia and why it matters
“Sovereign AI” is becoming a fixture of policy conversations. Behind the term is a practical question: how much of the capability shaping our economy and…