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Decluttering your online life: how to get your digital house in order and protect your data from AI

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The average person spends 40% of their waking hours online. Clearing out digital clutter can minimise environmental impacts and boost productivity Change by degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living tips each Saturday to help reduce your household’s carbon footprintGot a question or tip for reducing household emissions? Email us at changebydegrees@theguardian.comMany Australians worry about

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Donations to major parties and an ex-premier as a lobbyist: how datacentres play the political game in Australia

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As governments face community backlash for fast-tracking developments, big tech’s financial contributions face renewed scrutinyGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastOn 14 June 2025, Anthony Albanese stood inside an enormous sphere of glass and steel, surrounded by 40,000 plants from around the world. His mind was firmly fixed on datacentres. The

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Firmus pulls biggest ASX float since Telstra amid investor doubt about datacentre company

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The $11-a-share offer would have been the biggest debut on the stock market since the telecommunication giant in 1997Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFirmus Technologies has scrapped what was set to be Australia’s biggest company listing in decades after investor demand for its much-hyped AI datacentre business failed to materialise.A

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Datacentre company Firmus’s high flying valuation may be coming back down to earth ahead of expected ASX debut

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Sources say Firmus is slashing its price and may even shelve initial public offering altogetherGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe momentum behind Firmus Technologies’ high-flying valuation is showing severe cracks just weeks out from its anticipated ASX debut.Multiple sources briefed on the matter told Guardian Australia the AI datacentre company

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Australia is building a lot of new homes. But is the datacentre boom holding us back? | Greg Jericho

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Housing construction is at its strongest level since 2016, but it’s AI that is sucking up resources for buildersThe latest series of data on housing and building activity has been released, showing residential building is growing strongly but also that the datacentre boom is massive and ongoing.As political parties look to keep housing on the

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Rural Queenslanders have seen gas projects come and go – but a 725-hectare datacentre poses a whole new level of ‘stupidity’

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Residents of Dalby may soon live beside a $31bn datacentre. The premier sees ‘opportunity’ for the state – but others fear AI’s global creepFrom the veranda on his bush block, Denver Kanowski has watched resources companies come and go from rural Queensland for 70 years.The home cost him $800, and lets him live how he

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‘These guys are just coming from nothing’: questions over multibillion-dollar Firmus float amid datacentre backlash

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‘AI factories’ developer on track to launch the second-biggest IPO in Australian history, but investors warn its forecasts are ‘a little bit of a fairytale’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFrom her balcony in Launceston, Kayla Thompson can see the buzz of construction at what will soon be one of Australia’s

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Heads of OpenAI and Anthropic called to face Senate inquiry after rogue agent incidents

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Sam Altman and Dario Amodei have been invited to appear before the Greens-led inquiry into AI and datacentresGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastThe chief executives of OpenAI and Anthropic have been called to face a Senate inquiry after rogue OpenAI agents hacked Australian and US government websites.Sam Altman and Dario

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What an AI deal could mean for Australian culture – podcast

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The Albanese government is considering giving AI companies unrestricted access to Australian content. The sweeping copyright reforms could give AI companies – like Anthropic and Open AI – permission to train on the open internet here in Australia.Host Reged Ahmad speaks to musician and communications strategist Holly Rankin on what an AI deal could mean

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Anthropic to build $31bn datacentre in western Queensland, David Crisafulli says

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Premier describes deal as ‘major win’ that will deliver more jobs for the state and put more energy into its gridAnthropic, the AI giant behind the large language model Claude, has done a deal to lease the site of its first Australian datacentre in western Queensland.The state premier, David Crisafulli, announced the decision in parliament

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