{"id":580003,"date":"2026-04-02T04:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/580003\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T04:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:32:07","slug":"local-councils-are-calling-to-freeze-ai-data-centre-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/580003\/","title":{"rendered":"Local councils are calling to freeze AI data centre construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Local councils are calling for a moratorium on data centre approvals, to cap their construction, and to restrict where they can be built, warning that the AI-fuelled building boom is draining water and power from housing developments and generating few long-term jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the federal government looks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.industry.gov.au\/publications\/expectations-data-centres-and-ai-infrastructure-developers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fast-track the construction of data centres in Australia<\/a>, three councils have told a state inquiry about the consequences of the uncoordinated explosion of 88 data centres built across Sydney and their fears about the scale of future development.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local councils are calling for a moratorium on data centre approvals, to cap their construction, and to restrict&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,5004,284348,146776,1772,265902,2572,136085,5044,284349,25347,105,89683],"class_list":["post-580003","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-chatgpt","tag-city-of-ryde","tag-city-of-sydney","tag-data-centres","tag-data-centres-australia","tag-energy","tag-energy-use","tag-openai","tag-penrith-city-council","tag-population-growth","tag-technology","tag-water-supply"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580003","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=580003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}