{"id":266085,"date":"2025-11-06T08:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T08:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/266085\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T08:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T08:05:12","slug":"melbourne-sydney-join-global-push-for-sustainable-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/266085\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne, Sydney join global push for sustainable standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reece said city centres were increasingly becoming hubs for data centres, but also for their customers and for the firms that were developing them.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>Gallego said AI had \u201ctransformational potential, but communities need basic standards and transparency to ensure the infrastructure that supports them is developed in a way that benefits local residents\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sydney currently has more than double Melbourne\u2019s data centre capacity, but the Victorian capital has a greater pipeline of planned capacity for projects where construction is yet to begin, according to real estate firm Cushman &amp; Wakefield.<\/p>\n<p>Victorian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/politics\/victoria\/melbourne-is-turning-rust-bucket-suburbs-into-a-thirsty-power-hungry-billion-dollar-data-empire-20251007-p5n0pf.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economic Growth Minister Danny Pearson told this masthead last month<\/a> the state government wanted to accelerate planning processes to recruit more data centres to the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s an opportunity now to have that land repurposed for data centres,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Pearson said Victoria currently had about 48 operational data centres, with 20 more yet to come online. These ranged from massive \u201chyperscale\u201d facilities built by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p5m7h5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">technology giants such as Amazon<\/a>, to smaller \u201cco-located\u201d centres where businesses rent space. Among the most recent to be announced is a $2 billion facility in Fishermans Bend.<\/p>\n<p>Melbourne Water last month warned that it is receiving applications from new hyperscale data centres, which use large amounts of water to cool servers, with water demands \u201cexceeding those of nearly all top 30 non-residential customers\u201d in the city.<\/p>\n<p>In June, global tech giant Amazon Web Services announced it would increase its spending on data centres in Australia to $20 billion over the next five years, a development push that would include significantly expanding data centre \u201cregions\u201d in Sydney and Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reece said city centres were increasingly becoming hubs for data centres, but also for their customers and for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-266085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}