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Anthony Albanese promises fast-track approvals for datacentres to shore up AI investment

The Guardian 14 Jul 2026
Anthony Albanese says the federal government will introduce faster approval processes for AI projects, including datacentres, across Australia, seeking to shore up ...
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Datacentres drive up big tech’s carbon emissions to a third of those of France

The Observer 12 Jul 2026
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.
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Datacentres drive emissions of Microsoft, Amazon and Google to half those of France

The Guardian 11 Jul 2026
... by nearly a fifth in the past year, driven largely by datacentre construction.
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The Surge In Datacentre Power Demand

Eweekly 10 Jul 2026
800 terawatt-hours is more than the annual electricity consumption of Germany, the world’s third largest economy ... .
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‘A lot of red flags’: plans for New Zealand’s first datacentre spark concern as locals ...

The Guardian 10 Jul 2026
Plans to build a NZ$3.5bn datacentre in Makarewa in the country’s south has drawn concern about electricity and water use, and potential ...
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Meta prepares to fab its third custom datacentre chip

Eweekly 10 Jul 2026
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.
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Environmental groups call for stop to orbital datacentres

Eweekly 10 Jul 2026
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.
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‘A lot of red flags’: plans for New Zealand’s first datacentre spark concern as locals demand greater transparency

The Observer 10 Jul 2026
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.
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Datacentres are a ticking timebomb. We must make sure AI’s benefits outweigh the costs

The Observer 09 Jul 2026
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.
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