{"id":674982,"date":"2026-11-04T19:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T19:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/674982\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T19:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T19:22:16","slug":"data-centres-strain-australias-stretched-construction-pipeline-capital-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/674982\/","title":{"rendered":"Data centres strain Australia\u2019s stretched construction pipeline \u2014 Capital Brief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The news: Australia\u2019s data centre boom is adding to a record construction pipeline and stretching economic capacity, according to Deloitte Access Economics.<\/p>\n<p>The value of projects under construction is expected to be near $870 billion in 2027, more than double the peak of the mining boom in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Deloitte said the total investment pipeline had swelled to a record $1.39 trillion, including $141 billion in data centre projects, up 36% over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Director Sheraan Underwood said the economy had limited capacity to absorb the extra demand, particularly as data centres compete with housing and infrastructure for resources near major cities.<\/p>\n<p>The economic payoff may also be smaller than the headline investment suggests, with much of the technology imported and relatively few workers needed to operate completed facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The context: The Reserve Bank of Australia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalbrief.com\/briefing\/rba-hikes-rates-to-485-47771468-34ec-4b3b-843e-0c62cebba50d\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">lifted interest rates this week<\/a> to slow activity in the stretched economy. It noted an increase in business investment, particularly data centres.<\/p>\n<p>However, it said some of the inflationary impact was being offset by falling real incomes and weakness in the housing market. More than two-thirds of data centre investment would flow offshore, the bank estimated.<\/p>\n<p>What they said: \u201cInflation is above the Reserve Bank\u2019s target and the construction sector is already dealing with a historically large volume of work,\u201d Underwood said.<\/p>\n<p>The source: Deloitte Access Economics&#8217; Investment Monitor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The news: Australia\u2019s data centre boom is adding to a record construction pipeline and stretching economic capacity, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,5691,113,65449,61,60],"class_list":["post-674982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-data-centres","tag-economy","tag-government-bonds","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}