{"id":309969,"date":"2025-11-26T13:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/309969\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T13:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:06:08","slug":"australias-energy-challenge-could-kill-ai-data-centre-gold-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/309969\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s energy challenge could kill AI data centre gold rush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The artificial intelligence revolution couldn\u2019t have come at a better time for Jim Chalmers whose stewardship of the Australian economy is mired by stagnant productivity and inflation that jumped a higher-than-expected 3.8 per cent for October.<\/p>\n<p>Among the many AI elixirs touted to cure our economic malaise, data centres have emerged as a star candidate. Dubbed the \u2018factory floor\u2019 of the digital economy, these sprawling facilities possess immense computational power, storage and the specialised infrastructure needed to train and run AI.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The artificial intelligence revolution couldn\u2019t have come at a better time for Jim Chalmers whose stewardship of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-309969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309969","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=309969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}