{"id":558969,"date":"2026-03-23T12:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/558969\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T12:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:01:18","slug":"data-centres-in-australia-warn-of-investor-risk-due-to-unclear-government-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/558969\/","title":{"rendered":"Data centres in Australia warn of investor risk due to unclear government regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data centre operators say the Albanese government\u2019s new expectations, which are meant to help the development of critical infrastructure needed for artificial intelligence and cloud computing, are so vague that they may have the opposite effect, sending billions of dollars to other countries.<\/p>\n<p>The government released its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/politics\/federal\/labor-lays-down-energy-water-ground-rules-for-data-centre-boom-20260322-p5rmf9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expectations for data centres and AI projects<\/a> on Monday, hoping to make its hopes for national security, resilience and social licence clearer. Under the framework, it would expect but not require new projects to add an electricity supply to cover all or part of their usage.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Data centre operators say the Albanese government\u2019s new expectations, which are meant to help the development of critical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-558969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558969","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=558969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}