No Australia does fucking not. Turn coat politicians who are so very happy to sell out the country may

In the words of a wise Australian philosopher:

No way!

Get fucked!

Fuck off!

Imagine being someone who distrusted radium in 1900. Trying to understand this outrageous desire to shove poison into every product under the sun. Watching people literally brushing their teeth with it. Knowing how horrifically bad it was going to turn out.

Fucking capitalism never misses a chance to fuck people over. In a couple of years time when we are all in the AI hangover it's going to be curious to see how many people "knew all along" AI was a fantastically bad idea.

I know the data centres can be repurposed for other tasks once they don't need that density of compute, but what a waste.

Oh and before any sheep start bleating about how it's just a tool, and you can't stuff the genie back in the bottle...

Fuck off.

You willingly embrace the cognitive damage machine I will be maintaining my stance of "Fuck AI" and unless you have a background in neuroscience (and can post your credentials) I will likely be as unconvinced by your bullshit as the last hundred of your ilk who have fed me the same shitty rationalisations.

This article raises so many questions. Who is "Australia" in this context? Nobody wants data centres anywhere near them.
What is wrong with the proposed limitation that they provide their own renewable power? That seems like a very reasonable limitation to me. Economics 101: Increase demand and not supply, and prices increase. We'll all be paying more for power for these data centres we don't want.
What the hell are they proposing to do about water consumption? A data centre devoted to LLM (AI) infrastructure uses twice as much water as a regular data centre. Something like 15-20 megalitres per day. That's equivalent to something like 30,000 - 40,000 homes.

Are they trying to get these things built before everyone realises how much they are going to affect us all? It sure seems like it. This is exactly like a mining company proposing to build a mine in your neighbourhood. And should be subject to just as much scrutiny and planning that scenario would be.

Zero LLM data centres might be a little optimistic. We will likely need a couple. But careful planning is required to make them as sustainable and non-impactful to the environment as possible. They use the power of ~100,000 homes and the water of ~40,000. I do not want to be carrying that extra burden in my community.

Ok.

Dont let fucking One Nation take ground to spite Labour over bad calls on data centers.

Make yourself heard on rejecting AI slop, but for the love of fucking god dont pull an American Retardation and let bigotry and hatred slip inside in the process.

Dont be that idiot bitching that we avoided getting Peter Dutton's 'War on Woke'.

Yeah, we don't have the water for that shit. These things will suck our aquifers dry, we need desal plants just for fucking drinking water. It is clear from how this has played out everywhere else and how our own resources boom has played out that we need strict controls on how these things are provided with energy and water. Need to start writing some letters to state and fed MPs and members of local govt.

Not in Queensland apparently

We don’t want them at all Albanese. I wish these Labor cunts and their spineless PR wankers would read the fuckin room

Don’t put handfuls of sugar in the concrete to build these and definitely don’t pour buckets of diatomaceous earth near their intakes

Absolutely don’t punch the CEOs of these companies in the face

What kind of data centres.

Because I have to tell you, 90% of the people who Have Opinions on datacentres have only ever fucking heard of them in the context of "AI" and they are very very misinformed on what DCs are and what they do. Equating all DCs to LLMs is like equating every single power generation source to a coal burner

tl:dr: outside of LLM shitfactories they literally underpin your modern life.