We need a moratorium on Australia’s data centre development

recently report I led Greenpeace Australia Pacific calling for a nationwide moratorium on data centres. The tech industry won’t produce enough renewable energy to meet new demand, and the prospect of gas-powered data centers coming together with impatience means a serious climate impact. We need to pause data center development, then regulate and restrict it appropriately.

Moratoriums on such developments are a rational counter-reaction to the hasty, frenetic and emotional approach currently being implemented. Every new forecast for data center demand lurching upwardand previous forecasts often underestimated current demand.