Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has vowed new data centre developments will not drive up electricity costs for Australian households.
The comments come as Albanese unveiled part of Labor’s long-term plans for managing the growth of artificial intelligence (AI), including intellectual property protections and the establishment of an Office of AI within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
“We will create a legal obligation for the next generation of large-scale data centres to underwrite new power supply, to pay their full share of grid connection so no costs are passed on to homes or businesses, and to put at least as much energy into our grid as they take out of it,” he said during a July 15 address at the University of Sydney….
