'Sleepwalking into a catastrophe': Proposed data centre raises water fears
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To its supporters, this proposed data centre will provide much-needed regional jobs, but in the nation's driest state, critics say the draw on river water to cool the machines could be too great.
  • joelfromaus@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Nasdaq-listed tech company IREN is behind the massive data centre, which is proposed to be operating in 2028 at Bundey, two-and-a-half hours north-east of Adelaide.

    The centre will need up to 800 megawatts of electricity, the equivalent of powering around 800,000 Australian homes.

    It wasn’t that long ago that the media was kicking up a stink in SA about us installing renewables being a terrible idea for power supply consistency. But we can add 800,000 homes worth of draw in 1 datacenter and it’s ok?

    God damn, I hope taxpayers aren’t subsidising this.