New rules bar data centres from homes and prime farmland
Developers must add more renewable energy to power grids than they use. They must also avoid building near homes or farmland. These are new national standards.
Why it mattersIt protects housing and farmland from being used for data centre development. It also pushes data centres to contribute more renewable energy than they consume.
AustraliaThis shapes where and how data centre investment happens in Australia, protecting land for housing and agriculture while requiring developers to manage their own energy needs.
✓ Claims checked against the source and corrected before publish. checked 21 h ago
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