Assistant minister agrees concerns over resource usage are legitimate but argues Australia cannot ignore ‘consequential’ economic waveFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia should learn from the mistakes of the resources boom and set the terms for the AI and datacentres boom, the assistant minister for the digital economy, Andrew Charlton says.Growth in datacentres has exploded in the past two years, Charlton told the Sydney Institute on Wednesday night, with 44 projects in the pipeline in New South Wales alone seeking 11GW of capacity on the electricity grid. Continue reading…
