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Australia’s accelerating data centre build-out is being sold as the physical foundation of the AI economy: a network of vast, highly secure facilities that keeps cloud services, enterprise software, search engines, Microsoft Copilot, streaming platforms, online banking and generative AI...

The debate over whether artificial intelligence will devour the U.S. power grid has moved out of academic journals and into boardrooms, utility commission hearings, and consumers’ monthly bills—and the conversation is finally demanding honest numbers, not hype. Recent reporting has made two...