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Anthony Albanese left the door open at a meeting of the nation's leaders on Wednesday to a more "flexible" approach as Queensland and the Northern Territory refused to agree to standards requiring them to use renewables for new data centre developments.

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[-] notgold@aussie.zone -2 points 1 day ago

We all want more services, software (AI is software) is just another service.

The unfortunate thing is many youngsters aren't forming meaningful bonds with people and will pay money to create bonds with software. Remember the early internet, porn paid for the high speed upgrade.

[-] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 7 points 1 day ago

We don’t want AI data centres

They aren’t a service

[-] dgriffith@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We all want more services, software (AI is software) is just another service.

We are a country of less than 30 million people. How many datacenters to service "AI" do we actually require?

Do we require a Meta datacenter, an Amazon datacenter, a Anthropic datacenter, and etc etc, so we can burn more resources in the name of 'competition' between all these behemoths?

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