The new Office of AI – announced today in a speech by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese – must enforce his directive that new Australian data centres bring additional renewable energy to the table from the get-go.
With the Queensland Government threatening to allow data centres to expand without any renewable energy requirements, posing significant risks to power bills and our climate, the new Office of Artificial Intelligence must ensure Australians do not pay the price for a state-by-state race to the bottom for data centre expansion…
Source: Climate Council
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