‘Big energy users’: how will datacentres affect Australia’s power prices, water supply and emissions?

There’s a growing expectation that if you build a datacentre, you must meet your own energy needs. But there are other key policy questions that need answering

Our online lives are increasingly reliant on digital data, whether it’s asking an AI chatbot a question, generating a video or transcribing an online meeting.

Datacentres – giant warehouses stacked with servers to process and store all that data – have been around for decades. But what’s changing is the rapid pace and scale of industry growth, fuelled by the uptake of artificial intelligence.

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