Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will use Wednesday's national cabinet meeting to reassure premiers that new national controls on datacentre developments will complement state rules, amid op…
Federal Energy Minister Chris Bowen announced the Albanese government will legislate to force new AI datacentres to run on renewable energy, overriding opposition from Queensland and the Northern Terr…
Beetaloo Energy Australia signed a non-binding agreement with Halliburton to advance a gas-to-power and data centre development at a 185-hectare site in Weddell, Northern Territory, aiming to supply h…
Queensland and the Northern Territory have rejected a federal Labor push to mandate renewable energy for AI datacentres, deepening a state-federal rift as S&P Global warns datacentre power consumption…
Australia's federal government proposed mandatory national standards on July 15 requiring large new data centres to underwrite new power supply, pay connection costs, reduce load when needed, and limi…
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s proposed national environmental and energy controls for the country’s A$150 billion data centre pipeline hit their first obstacle on Tuesday when Queenslan…
Australia's Northern Territory is courting Korean investment in shale gas, critical minerals and AI data centers, with more than 160 business leaders from 12 countries attending the second Northern Te…
Project Ares, proposed by Energy North Pty Ltd, would build one of Australia's largest AI data centres and a gas power station larger than the Darwin–Katherine grid on Murranji Station in the Northern…