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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has back-pedalled on Energy Minister Chris Bowen’s threat to force Queensland and the Northern Territory to impose renewable energy mandates on data centres, and yielded to state premiers over the gun buyback scheme.

Before a meeting of national cabinet on Wednesday, Liberal premiers David Crisafulli from Queensland and Lia Finocchiaro from the NT expressed opposition to Labor’s plans to force new data centres to add more renewable electricity to the grid than they consume.

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