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c/climate · by silence7@slrpnk.net · 45d

Australian Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen has said he will use federal power to force states to fall into line with his plan to require data centres to fully offset their electricity use

https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/we-will-use-all-the-powers-available-bowen-lays-down-law-to-states-on-data-centres-20260805-p60lpt.html

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sealhaslupus@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 45d (3 replies)

sounds good up front but the reality is much worse.

https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260803-why-data-centre-greenwashing-is-about-to-explode

dillekant@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 44d

Yeah as soon as I read "offset" I'm like "oh, it's creative accounting".

WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 45d (1 reply)

Well it is Labor, so they're guaranteed to virtue signal progressive ideals while choosing the milquetoast neoliberal options, until all have been exhausted.

kingofras@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 45d

But friendlyjordies said labor was going to save us!

alexquiniou@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 45d (1 reply)

At least ! Someone at work

WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 45d

At most ! Someone at play

MalReynolds@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 45d (1 reply)

Someone's read the room.

I also recommend wrapping datacentre applications heavily in red tape and nipping down the Winchester and waiting for it to all blow over :) This time next year (or the next) the outlook may be very different.

Greyghoster@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 44d

The winds of change appear to be about to blow a lot of the money loosing companies away. Waiting is probably for the best.

cheat700000007@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 45d (1 reply)

I've never heard "to" so many times in 1 sentence

silence7@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 45d

There are some great sentences out there:

A veterinarian prescribed antibiotics Monday for a camel that lives behind an Iberville Parish truck stop after a Florida woman told law officers she bit the 600-pound animal's genitalia after it sat on her when she and her husband entered its enclosure to retrieve their deaf dog.