Melbourne has surged ahead of Sydney for the first time in the multibillion-dollar race for planned new data centres, as the state capitalises on old manufacturing land to attract the world’s tech giants.
But this unprecedented surge in projects, reshaping suburbs in Melbourne’s west and north-west, has sparked concerns about the impact of these power-hungry facilities on the state’s electricity and water supply.
USSC Research Associate Johanna Lim was quoted in the article by the Sydney Morning Herald on the power-hungry nature of data centres.