Australia sets environmental and energy safeguards for new data centers
Australia's Labor government announced environmental and energy safeguards for new data centers and is pushing for national standards. Australia's assistant minister for science, technology and the digital economy framed regulation as balancing risk against opportunity.
The assistant minister also disclosed that his own book was scraped by Anthropic, and cited low public trust in AI as a driver for moving now. Australia is establishing national data center standards while US policy remains state-by-state.
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