Prime minister will use national cabinet meeting to assuage premiers over new AI law as Aemo forecasts seven-fold rise in datacentre power use

A Coalition olive branch to Anthony Albanese comes as the prime minister prepares to confront conservative states over the use of fossil fuels to power the data centre boom.

Queensland's rejection of rules tying data centre construction to new renewables projects means the federal government will be forced to legislate to override the state.