Anthony Albanese will outline to national cabinet on Wednesday proposed national legislation for conditions and guardrails around data centres – but faces a fight with Queensland.
The legislation covers conditions on sources of energy and water and the locations of centres.
It will also set conditions for AI model training in relation to copyright, security, safety and skills development.
Among the minimum obligations the commonwealth will impose are that centres:
must not place upwards pressure on energy prices and must make a positive contribution to Australia’s energy transition
