Coalition frontbencher Jonno Duniam’s plan to consider using small reactors to power data centres is an “ideological fantasy”, say Labor ministers.

Under Labor’s policy set to be legislated early next year, all next-generation data centres such as those that train and power artificial intelligence agents will be required to…

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