Australia’s data centre industry is barely off the ground and developers are already copping it in the neck.AirTrunk faces backlash for proposing to build a huge data centre close to schools, Goodman Group for putting one on Sydney’s leafy north shore, NextDC for having huge diesel storage and lithium batteries in Melbourne’s inner west and Firmus for potentially being Tasmania’s biggest power user.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
Froth, debt stacks and NIMBYs: Inside the data centre squeeze
From community protests to stretched power grids, Australia is walking straight into America’s data centre playbook.









