If the American midterms showed that voter anger over data centres can help swing elections, Monday’s Australian Financial Review Infrastructure Summit confirmed that Australian developers and state and federal governments are under no illusions about the need to secure community support to keep the local data centre build-out on track.
The Albanese government must balance regulation of local data centre development without losing the technology’s potential economic dividends. The potential expansion of AI infrastructure in Australia has created strange bedfellows, with both the Greens and One Nation standing arm-in-arm against new projects.
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