Australia’s Grid Operators Eye New Rules for Power-Hungry Data Centres

Australia’s grid operators eye new rules for power-hungry data centres

The energy market operator has requested the changes as a surge in artificial intelligence processing creates concerns about the stability of the network.

AEMC Draws Up Electricity Rules For Data Centres In AI Boom - Cybernoz - Cybersecurity News

The Australian Energy Market Commission is considering new rules to manage an expected influx of high-capacity data centres in coming years, concerned at how these facilities would respond in a grid power outage. The commission is wanting, in part, to avoid a domestic repeat of an incident in the United States last year where 60 data centres in Virginia automatically disconnected from the grid during a “disturbance” – adversely impacting the gr…

AEMC draws up electricity rules for data centres in AI boom

Wants to prevent a mass disconnection event.

Asset managers face a data-centre net zero conundrum

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI) and the data centres aligned with it leads to concerns around sustainability. AI and data centres are rampant energy consumers. For asset managers, the challenge is to reconcile the use of data centres for their own operations and for their investment portfolios (data centres are an exciting sector

AI Investments Fuel Australia’s Data Centre Future

This article is part of the daily news updates from FNArena.com. Stay informed with the latest financial, business, and economic insights. Written by Admin Updated sector analysis and forecasts suggest fears of the demise of data centre stocks and the GenAI revolution are overblown.-BigTech's March quarter results dismiss investors' AI oversupply concern-Analysts dissect the demand/supply dynamic for data centres-APAC data centre growth outpaces…

Legrand presents numerous innovations for next-generation data centers at the Data Centre World (DCW) 2025 in Frankfurt. The highlight is a pre-configured cabinet solution for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) with airflow control, water-cooled back door cooling as well as next-generation PDUs and power supply via power rail. In addition, energy-efficient modular and expandable uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs…