{"id":678154,"date":"2026-05-18T07:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T07:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/678154\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T07:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T07:27:13","slug":"australias-electricity-grid-faces-perfect-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/678154\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s electricity grid faces &#8220;perfect storm&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AEMO forecasts, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/infrastructure\/aemo-says-data-centre-power-consumption-rising-faster-than-expected-20260512-p5zvxo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The AFR<\/a>, show electricity use by data centres rising faster than expected, with Victoria\u2019s demand nearly doubling in the past year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Data-centre-demand.png\" width=\"923\" height=\"490\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Within a decade, data centres could consume one-eighth of Australia\u2019s current electricity use, reaching 25\u201335 terawatt-hours by 2036.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Data-centre-demand-forecast.png\" width=\"926\" height=\"487\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Victoria\u2019s demand jumped 94% to 187 MW, while NSW demand rose 18% to 398 MW. Nationally, data centres currently account for around 3% of total demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AEMO forecasts, published in The AFR, show electricity use by data centres rising faster than expected, with Victoria\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-678154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678154","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=678154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}