Labor to set terms for datacentre and AI growth as it vows not to repeat mistakes of resources boom
TL;DR
Assistant minister agrees concerns over resource usage are legitimate but argues Australia cannot ignore ‘consequential’ economic wave Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australia should learn from the mistakes of the resources boom and set the terms for the AI and datacentres boom, the assistant minister for the digital economy, Andrew Charlton says. Growth in datacentres has exploded in the past two years, Charlton told the Sydney Institute on Wednesday night, with 44 projects in the pipeline in New South Wales alone seeking 11GW of capacity on the electricity grid.
Nauti's Take
AI doesn't just need models, it needs megawatts. For builders, infrastructure policy is becoming product strategy.
If you care about latency, costs and uptime, you now need to track power grids, locations and regulation, not just GPU prices.
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