Framing the national conversation around hyperscaler’s AI infrastructure as something the grid has to “cope with” misses the bigger opportunity.
Following Federal Energy Minister Chris Bowen’s meeting with his state counterparts to discuss how data centres can build Australia’s energy system, there’s a risk of the debate heading in the wrong direction.
Too much of the national conversation still frames data centres as something the grid has to “cope with”, another source of rising electricity demand competing with households and industry.
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