Fear data centres leaving energy transition 'worse off'

Fear data centres leaving energy transition 'worse off'

Data centre promises to build new clean energy need closer scrutiny in the view of Greenpeace, which worries the AI boom is derailing the climate transition.

Data Centre report shows frenzied AI data centre projects will derail energy transition and emissions targets – 16 News

The Greens NSW have welcomed, with alarm, the Data Centre report by Greenpeace, ‘Energy Vampires: The AI Data Centres draining Australia’. The report finds that the frenzied rollout of AI data centres in Australia is rushing through massive new projects, which will derail Australia’s energy transition unless the government urgently intervenes, and that there are early signs of a data centre-fuelled gas boom in Australia, which will come with mas…

Greenpeace warns AI data centre rollout threatens to derail Australia's clean energy transition

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.

Data centres to derail green energy push, says 2026 report

New data centres rolling out across the country will derail the country’s switch to renewable energy, a new report says. And Greenpeace wants a national moratorium on centre approvals until safeguards can be put in place. The report from Greenpeace Australia Pacific and independent expert Ketan Joshi explains how the rollout of data centres in Australia can entrench gas use and turbocharge climate pollution. The report, Energy Vampires: the AI d…