Rita Matulioniti
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Jul
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We have seen in Australia very strong growth
of data centers.
We have them in hundreds and more are planned in a few years.
And a lot of them are growing in big cities like Sydney and Melbourne.
And people really start getting concerned about the fact that they're taking space, of course, using electricity, which would likely to increase prices, using water resources.
And as you might know, Australia is the driest continent, so we don't have that much water.
And also actually taking builders, taking away from building houses,
They then occupied building data centers.
So there was a bit of increasing concern among communities and actually even suggestions to establish moratorium.
But the prime minister took a different position and said, we will keep building them, but we will legislate.
We will require them to feed electricity back into the grid.
He talked about that we have a lot of solar energy, we should be using it.
We have a lot of space across our big Australia, so we maybe have to think about developing them outside the cities and so on.
That's indeed another very controversial question in Australia.
So government so far was actually quite strong on this.
And despite a lot of lobbying from AI industry to introduce an exception like text and data mining that exists in UK and Europe, the government said, no, last year, we're not going to do that.
You will have to essentially license the content.
And the prime minister today again reiterated that.
that they will respect the copyright industry's choices.
And it's not only about remuneration.
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