Australia to Put Environmental Brakes on A.I. Data Centers

No, no it is not.

Albo’s made a new PR department for AI is all. He’s even removed the requirement they use sustainable energy, so they’ll be installing gas power generators on sites.

In the mean time Labor are using laws to build numerous centres all over the place, without people being allowed to raise concerns. They’re being pre-approved on special economic needs.

This needs to stop being spread like we’re doing something good here because we really aren’t. But for whatever reason US media has latched onto this.

The is awesome in one way, but terrible in others. Anthropic and OpenAI can afford this (bullshit!) but their latest open source competitors cannot. In a way, it may be helping lock in monopolies if open source can’t cut them down a bit first. It should go a step further by limiting companies from dominating the industry in nations they aren’t even based in. Currently, it’s accepting that data centres owned by big companies/corporations is how the AI industry is and will be.

Sure it’s not what they wanted, but sweeping in and locking down the industry in Australia will be great for their shaky plans for IPO.

I’m no lawmaker or expert, but I see this as important as anything else the Australian government thinks it’s thought of.