Ketan Joshi

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7am · Mega data centres in bed with big gas: how fossil fuels are powering the AI boom · 7 Jun 2026 podcast

Australia's data center project proposals are massive at a global scale.

These projects are now getting up into high hundreds of megawatts and even gigawatt scale, which is essentially what we're seeing in the US.

Australia obviously has fewer.

of these large projects, but the scale of each individual project, it's only getting bigger.

I read of a project over the weekend that is 2.4 gigawatts.

To give you a sense of scale, the current two largest projects that have actually applied for connections are one gigawatt.

The one gigawatt facility in New South Wales, that's called the Mumra Road Campus.

That one will have the energy consumption of all households in Australia.

So not just in New South Wales or one part of Australia, all households in Australia.

So that gives you a sense of scale of how big it is.

The line that we see everywhere around the world kind of has two sides to it.

The first is economic.

Essentially, the implementation of the services provided by these data centers, specifically artificial intelligence, will cause a productivity boom.

But that is not something that we're really seeing play out very much in companies that are particularly even the ones that are the heaviest adopters of AI systems.

Some of them have small productivity gains, particularly those that are doing coding.

That seems to be one area in which there is a slight increase in efficiency.

But when it comes to all of the other stuff like text generation and image generation and videos, it is a pretty minor improvement for such a significant financial cost.

Then the second argument they often use relates to jobs, and that's something that we know with real confidence has been exaggerated very significantly.

A lot of the jobs are quite transient.

You have a real, real burst of jobs during construction simply due to the scale of the data center growth.

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