A dispute over power poles and broader community backlash may have ramifications for Australia's data centre boom. The issue has sparked questions about the social licence of data centres operating in Australia.
USSC Director of Strategic Technologies Olivia Shen spoke with SBS News on this development, saying the social licence for data centres could be in the process of being lost across Australia. "I think at the local level, communities are just feeling quite blindsided by all this development, and especially where it's happening on very large scale in areas where they're not used to this kind of development."