{"id":882098,"date":"2026-09-06T12:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T12:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/882098\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T12:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T12:54:15","slug":"data-centre-developers-in-australia-say-securing-renewable-energy-deals-is-now-their-biggest-hurdle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/882098\/","title":{"rendered":"Data centre developers in Australia say securing renewable energy deals is now their biggest hurdle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Securing access to power has trumped land acquisitions as the biggest hurdle to building new data centres, developers say, as projects worth tens of billions of dollars compete for renewable energy contracts amid surging demand.<\/p>\n<p>Developers will tell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/afrlive\/property-summit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Financial Review Property Summit<\/a> on Monday that land is no longer the biggest constraint to development, but that they could have trouble securing enough renewable energy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/policy\/energy-and-climate\/no-carve-outs-for-queensland-on-data-centres-bowen-20260828-p60sdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to meet new national standards<\/a> if additional power is not added to the Australian grid.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Securing access to power has trumped land acquisitions as the biggest hurdle to building new data centres, developers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-882098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882098","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=882098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}