Elliot Lawry

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4,557 appearances 48 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 21 Sep

Elliot Lawry’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Daily Aus · The billion-dollar fight over Aussie copyright · 5 Jul 2026 podcast

And that puts a really big demand on our water supply. voice-verified

So the idea that soon we could be having more and more data centers means that we're using more water, more power to power the data centers. voice-verified

And also another element is voice-verified

they create heat. voice-verified

So the area around data centers actually gets hotter. voice-verified

And why that's interesting is because where these data centers are being built, they're in these sort of inner city, suburban sprawl areas that already are dealing with a lot of heat issues from that urban sprawl. voice-verified

Basically, when there's lots of concrete, I'm going to butcher the climate science on this, but it creates like a radiant heat because it's voice-verified

absorbing the sun's energy and then kind of radiating that back out to the local communities and having these data centers there that then amplifies it. voice-verified

I just have a quick tidbit on this. voice-verified

Did you ever do this as a science experiment at school? voice-verified

So basically in private school I have this vivid memory of wrapping thermometers in different coloured pieces of paper. voice-verified

Oh, wow. voice-verified

And then looking at what temperature was measured and black was the worst and then white was the best. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

Well, based on what we just went through, you'd think, why would they do that? voice-verified

That sounds terrible. voice-verified

But there is a pretty strong case for it. voice-verified

So it's mostly to do with the sort of AI revolution that's happening globally. voice-verified

It's something that Australia is trying to keep up with and become a leader in. voice-verified

And over the past few months, we've heard of all these deals and they're called MOUs, which is Memorandum of Understanding. voice-verified

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