The bigger, hungrier AI data centres set to escape looming water and power restrictions
Dozens of approved but yet-to-be-built AI data centre projects will escape the federal government’s proposed restrictions around energy…
AI boom’s demand for skilled workers could hit housing pipeline
Australia lacks enough workers to build both houses and data centres in its pipeline, and new data shows…
‘The era of the cheap smartphone has ended’: Customers are now paying for the global AI fever
One of technology’s great bargains is quickly turning on its head as the seemingly unstoppable AI tidal wave…
How the AI boom is forcing tech prices higher
Smartphone prices are on the rise, and the reasons come down to the business of AI. Beneath the…
AI giant Anthropic wanted ‘massive’ data centre capacity in NSW, emails reveal
Internal NSW government emails reveal AI giant Anthropic was interested in building up to 5 gigawatts of AI…
Automation and repression — why the two go hand in hand
When are the pitchforks coming? Wealth inequality is becoming extreme. Political corruption is rampant in the United States.…
Albanese warning on AI social licence ahead of national cabinet
Maintaining Australia’s social licence will be “crucial” as the federal government seeks to draw investment in AI and…
International developer plans Australia’s largest data centre in regional Queensland
With the energy demands of artificial intelligence prompting broader policy debates across Australia, regional Queensland is now facing…
Albanese to settle AI data centre energy rules, overriding defiant Queensland
The federal government expects to settle new energy and water rules for massive AI data centres at a…
Water ministers to discuss national plan for AI data centres
Melissa Clarke: How to manage the explosive growth of data centres has become a key community concern and…
Energy Colossus: AI is on a huge learning curve – and it could fuel a tripling in power demand
Examining the bigger picture around the SpaceX Colossus lease AI is useful and very rapidly becoming more useful.…
Data centre developers eye outback Queensland as AI demand surges
As Australia races to build the infrastructure behind the AI boom, an outback Queensland mayor says the next…