data centres

New South Wales (NSW) has released a Data Centre Policy Framework that ties streamlined planning approval for new data centres to commitments on renewable energy, water use and cost recovery, becoming the first state to translate Australia's national data centre policy direction into detailed operating rules.

Australia's AEMC sets a renewable energy framework for data centres as NSW introduces REZ-style legislation to control grid access and costs.

Australian states can impose stricter renewables rules on data centres than the national minimum, but cannot weaken the federal floor.

Queensland and Northern Territory have refused to back a national framework requiring large data centres to underwrite new renewable energy.

Australia will move to ensure large-scale data centres are required to put at least as much green energy into the grid as they draw from it.

Clean energy investor confidence in Australia has deteriorated sharply over the past year, according to the Clean Energy Investor Group (CEIG).

Firmus Technologies has signed a 12-year wholesale energy supply agreement with Gunvor Group, including 1.2GW of renewables by 2032.

Sabanci Renewables has signed a PPA with Meta for a portfolio of solar PV projects currently under development in the state of Texas.

A new report from Greenpeace Australia has warned that the rapid expansion of AI data centres across Australia is set to slow the country's renewable energy transition rather than accelerate it.

The planned merger of US utilities NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy should be met with “caution” by state lawmakers, according to a number of US clean energy and political non-profit groups.