Winter of discontent for big data opponents

Winter of discontent for big data opponents

160 data centres are already operating in Australia, with another 90 proposed. Adobe. While Australia’s parliamentarians were frocking up for the Midwinter Ball last week, representatives of the nation’s authors, musicians and artists were in Canberra pleading for assurances that the government would not water down copyright laws, as part of a deal with giant tech firms to build $50bn worth of new data centres across the country. Authors Anna Fu…