The territory’s ambitions to expand into data centres and rare earths hinge on a huge gas resource and its potential to deliver cheap and plentiful power.

Beetaloo site emerges as potential supplier for Asia after Iran crisis

The territory’s ambitions to expand into data centres and rare earths hinge on a huge gas resource and its potential to deliver cheap and plentiful power.

Beetaloo Energy has secured exclusive NT land for a proposed gas-powered AI data centre precinct, opening a potential long-term domestic market for its Beetaloo Basin gas.

The ambitious project would provide a large new market for Beetaloo gas but has sparked an immediate backlash from green groups.

A proposed massive new data centre would require more than six times the total demand of the Darwin and Katherine electricity grids to operate and be powered by gas piped direct…