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Australian data centres will use seven times more power by 2036

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Australian data centres will take 13% of the country’s main electricity market by 2035-36, up from 3% today. That is almost a sevenfold rise in a decade, according to the Australian Energy Market Operator. Keira Wright reported the forecast for Bloomberg. The figure lands in AEMO’s annual Electricity Statement of Opportunities. The document is the […]

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Alphabet takes its AI debt spree Down Under with a first Australian dollar bond

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Alphabet is preparing to sell its first bond denominated in Australian dollars, a modest-sounding piece of financial housekeeping that says a good deal about how the AI build-out is now being paid for. According to bookrunner messages reported by Reuters, the Google parent has hired ANZ, Deutsche Bank, RBC Capital Markets, and TD Securities to […]

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Recruiters are using AI avatars to run interviews. Now candidates are sending avatars to attend them.

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Job recruiters are meeting an uncanny new kind of candidate: the AI avatar. These digital humans mirror an applicant’s voice and likeness while being something else entirely, and they are turning up in first-round interviews. Lana Kersanava, a Sydney-based recruiter, told Semafor she has encountered them over the past six months. “At the beginning, it’s like […]

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Booksellers fear their rarest books are being pulped to feed AI. The trail leads to a ‘recycler’.

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We have written about why AI companies are buying up old books: printed before the internet filled with machine-made text, they are a clean source of language, free of AI slop. This is what that hunger looks like from the other end. In Australia, secondhand booksellers fear someone is slicing apart and pulping the rarest […]

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Most Australian teens are still on social media three months into the under-16 ban

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Most Australian teenagers are still using social media three months after the country’s world-first under-16 ban took effect, according to a new study from the eSafety Commissioner that undercuts one of the government’s flagship online-safety policies. The share of teens using social media slipped only from 86% to 81%, the regulator found, even though platforms […]

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Australia takes Telegram to court over terrorist content it says the app left up

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The eSafety regulator has filed civil proceedings seeking up to A$54.6m, alleging Telegram hosted mass-shooting and Islamic State videos and ignored takedown demands. Telegram says it will fight. Australia’s online safety regulator has taken Telegram to court, alleging the messaging app left terrorist and violent extremist videos on its platform after being told to remove […]

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X says Australia’s under-16 crackdown breaks international law

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Elon Musk’s X has told Australia that its plan to tighten enforcement of a world-first ban on under-16s using social media would breach international law. The company has trained its objection on a bill that would let the country’s online-safety regulator demand documents from people who live nowhere near Australia. The complaint, reported by Reuters, […]

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Australia’s world-first data centre rules need every state to agree. Two just said no.

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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 two jurisdictions declined to back them. Federal, state and territory energy ministers met virtually to discuss the plan, and Queensland and the Northern Territory opposed most of the measures, […]

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Australia’s world-first data centre rules hit their first snag: the power isn’t there yet

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Australia has told its data centres to put more power into the grid than they pull out, an obligation no other country has tried to write into law. The demand is barely a fortnight old, and it has already met the most basic of objections: the electricity the industry is meant to supply cannot be […]

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A gas-rich outback station could host a $28bn off-grid AI data centre

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On a cattle station deep in the Northern Territory outback, roughly 683km south of Darwin, a Singapore-headquartered developer wants to build one of the largest data centres in the southern hemisphere. The plan leans on a resource the region has in abundance and the electricity grid does not reach out to supply: gas. Energy North […]

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