reported last week<\/a>. <\/p>\nA group of university students took part in an experiment with ChatGPT.\u00a0 (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
The PM’s remarks today went further than his response yesterday to the Greens’ call for a moratorium on hyperscale data centre consents, which he had dismissed as “alarmist”. <\/p>\n
While still rejecting a moratorium, Luxon acknowledged today the sector had begun to lose social licence in parts of the world, particularly North America. But, “putting a one-year moratorium in place sends a message to global investors,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Sitting in Canada, thinking about, you know, where I might make that investment of the 195 countries that are out there, we want New Zealand to be a competitive position for that for that capital to come here,” Luxon said.<\/p>\n
“We can find quite good bipartisan support for that going forward, but the answer is not to turn off investment before it’s even shown up in the country.”<\/p>\n
Greens say there must be ‘national conversation’<\/p>\n
Greens co-leader Chl\u00f6e Swarbrick announced the one-year pause pledge on Q+A over the weekend, framing it as a chance for a “national conversation” rather than a ban. <\/p>\n
Swarbrick spoke to Q+A about the Greens’ policy to pause new AI data centres consents for a year. (Source: Q and A)<\/p>\n
“This is not a ban on data infrastructure. It’s a pause on the most resource-intensive developments while New Zealanders get a say on what conditions they should meet,” she said in a media release accompanying the announcement.<\/p>\n
“Let’s take a moment, let’s have a common-sense think about who they’re actually benefitting, and whether New Zealanders want them in the first place.”<\/p>\n
She said the pause was not a ban, as a “one-year pause gives us time to get this right”.<\/p>\n
Swarbrick said the country had never been asked whether it wanted the facilities at all, stating that New Zealanders were entitled to “a national conversation”.<\/p>\n
“If we are going to let these things be built, we should at least understand who is benefiting and ensure we protect our natural resources and communities. That’s why the Greens are calling for a one-year pause, to allow intentional regulation to be developed.”<\/p>\n
Supporters of further investment argue New Zealand is unusually well placed to win a share of the fast-growing global market, pointing to renewable energy opportunities, cooler climate, fibre connectivity and stable business environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Government is working on a “compact” setting rules for hyperscale data centre operators wanting to build locally,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,273,69543,11507,111,139,69,135,145],"class_list":["post-545972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-environment","tag-green-party","tag-national-party","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-politics","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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