Independent Planning Commission says climate change impacts from Hunter Valley project will be ‘outweighed’ by economic benefits

Climate groups are latching onto the data center opposition movement, but it remains to be seen if they can get people to care about the facilities’ impact on the atmosphere.

Climate groups are latching onto the data center opposition movement, but it remains to be seen if they can get people to care about the facilities’ impact on the atmosphere.

And Other Tales of Billionaire Lying from the Data Center Wars

Developer Goodman Group says changes in government rules are behind decision to pull plug on ‘Project Mars’ in Lane Cove

The Thai capital, built on swampland, is slowly sinking and the floods currently besieging Bangkok could be merely a foretaste of a grim future as climate change makes its impact felt, experts say.

All 50 districts of Bangkok have been declared public disaster zones due to sustained rainfall and floods.

YouTube video by Dr Myriam François

Educational institutions find themselves suddenly confronted with a fork in the road

With community concerns about datacentres becoming impossible to ignore, the state Labor government has changed course

Activists gathered outside the OpenAI offices on Monday during climate week in New York City

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms

The decisions we make today will shape Australia’s future for decades.

Like standover goons, America’s AI giants are threatening our government – and it is rolling over to their demands like no other nation.

Global push will triple toxic e-waste annually in 25 years, filling enough shipping containers to circle globe six times

Firms manage $7.3tn in assets and could afford to transition away from fossil fuels yet invest in natural gas and coal-fired plants to power datacenters

The city’s two most prestigious tertiary institutions have signed multi-year deals with ChatGPT within days. There’s a campus backlash brewing.

Firms manage $7.3tn in assets and could afford to transition away from fossil fuels yet invest in natural gas and coal-fired plants to power datacenters

YouTube video by Naomi Klein

Calls for regulation of AI coming from big tech companies should be treated with deep suspicion, especially when linked to a US program to contain China. Why don't they start with data centres instead...

USyd has signed a multi-year partnership with OpenAI to rollout ChatGPT Edu despite criticism from the NTEU and students

Event is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis

But scientists say the world could get back to 1.5C through deep, rapid emissions cuts and removing carbon from the atmosphere

University’s move is part of trend that critics within academia say will lead to further staff cuts and loss of ‘everything that makes the job worth doing’

Podcast Episode · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 27 August · 2h 27m

National Cabinet has just made its choice on how Australia's AI boom gets powered. The Albanese Government went into this week's meeting insisting new data centres will be powered by renewable energy ...

Shift comes after Chris Bowen said Labor would use constitutional powers to override states resisting rules on sustainable energy