SYDNEY (Reuters) -Google plans to build a large artificial intelligence data centre on Australia's remote Indian Ocean outpost of Christmas Island after signing a cloud deal with the Department of ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia's remote Indian Ocean outpost of Christmas Island has enough power to support a new Google data centre without depriving locals, but its arrival could spur a push to ...

Residents say massive, noisy AI factories with unknown environmental impacts are being rushed into development right next to their homes ...

As Australia braces for the kind of data centre growth being experienced in the US, we need to navigate some muddy thinking on the idea that they have to bring their own energy generation.

Google's plans had raised concern there would not be enough power to meet the needs of locals, the island's phosphate mine and the data centre, but Phosphate Resources chief executive, Nicholas Gan, ...

A Google data centre in Belgium. The growth of data centres and AI will transform the global energy sector. Image: Google. A coalition of Australian climate groups, unions and renewable energy ...

SYDNEY, April 10 (Reuters) - Australian energy and water utilities warn the strain on capacity from a more than A$100 billion ($70 billion) data centre build-out in the country's biggest ‌state could ...