Data centres in Australia: your questions answered

By Alexandra Hansen, Deputy Editor and Chief of Staff, The Conversation
Signe Dean, Science + Technology Editor, The Conversation

Community opposition to large-scale data centres is growing. Critics are calling for a pause on data centre development, in line with other jurisdictions such as New York, but Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has ruled this out.

We put a call-out to our audience: what questions do you have about data centres? We were quickly overwhelmed with responses and had to close the survey.

This avid response cemented our decision to take a deeper dive into data centres.…

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