Anthony Albanese says the federal government will introduce faster approval processes for AI projects, including datacentres, across Australia, seeking to shore up ...
The Uptime Institute, which rates and inspects datacentres, estimates that big datacentre projects announced last year would consume 1.3% of the world’s electricity usage, or a near-doubling of current datacentre demand.
Meta reckons that using its own chips in its datacentres delivers a 40% to 44% reduction in TCO...Google started using its own TPUs in its datacentres in 2014 ... company might rent out datacentre capacity.
The coalition states that companies, including SpaceX, are making plans to launch more than a million such datacentres into space ...Previously, ST’s envisaged orbital datacentres becoming a reality within a few years.
People living near the site of New Zealand’s first planned AI datacentre are calling for more transparency about the project, especially about how the centre’s huge electricity and water use and potential noise pollution could affect them.
The two great existential threats of our time – the climate crisis and AI – come hurtling together in the explosion of datacentres across Australia and around the world ...Waste heat from datacentres is also a significant problem.