Woodie said:

party_pants said:

Ian said:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/05/chris-bowen-vows-to-override-queensland-and-nt-to-force-renewables-powered-ai-datacentres

The energy minister, Chris Bowen, says the federal government will override hopelessly backward state governments that oppose new national rules on datacentres, with commonwealth legislation forcing new AI datacentres to be powered by renewable energy and banning those fuelled by gas.

So, no data centres for Australia then?

These things consume huge amounts of electrickery to run, and huge amounts of water to cool.

I don’t see anyone going on about the amounts of electricity electric vehicles will be consuming in 10 – 15 – 20 years time, and where that lecky is going to come from.

Oil refineries chew through massive amounts of electricity. As they begin to shut down that’ll free up a quite a lot of power.
Also, people with EV’s mostly charge them at home from their own solar panels, so yes there will be an increase in the amount of electricity used but not in the same rate as EV ownership.
It’s not going to be a problem.