The Labor Government’s new National AI Plan aims to make us a global data centre hotspot, with $10B already invested in 2024.
But these AI facilities could devour up to 13% of our electricity by 2040, guzzle massive water in drought prone Australia, and risk displacing more jobs than they create.
Worse still paired with Digital ID and future CBDCs, are we quietly building the infrastructure for a surveillance state?
Who really benefits from them?
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