{"id":240513,"date":"2026-07-05T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/05\/should-australia-pause-building-new-data-centres-we-asked-5-experts\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T16:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:00:18","slug":"should-australia-pause-building-new-data-centres-we-asked-5-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/05\/should-australia-pause-building-new-data-centres-we-asked-5-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Australia pause building new data centres? We asked 5 experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/should-australia-pause-building-new-data-centres-we-asked-5-experts-286547\">Should Australia pause building new data centres? We asked 5 experts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/should-australia-pause-building-new-data-centres-we-asked-5-experts-286547\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/should-australia-pause-building-new-data-centres-we-asked-5-experts-286547<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-05 15:36:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"theconversation.com\">theconversation.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Data centres, while crucial for the functioning of the internet and the AI industry, are increasingly controversial due to their significant water and energy consumption, noise levels, and land use.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>In Australia, the rapid expansion of data centres has led to opposition from many local communities concerned about rising inflation and power prices and the lack of community involvement in the process.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The Greens have proposed a moratorium on the construction and approval of new data centres until regulations align with sustainability and community engagement goals.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The debate has prompted an inquiry with five experts, three of whom advised pausing the building of new data centres.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Various experts disclosed funding sources that may be relevant to their research on data centre sustainability and policy within the Australian context.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should Australia pause building new data centres? We asked 5 experts https:\/\/theconversation.com\/should-australia-pause-building-new-data-centres-we-asked-5-experts-286547 Publish Date: 2026-07-05&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/745317\/original\/file-20260701-57-enonu2.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0&rect=0%2C635%2C7608%2C3804&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240515,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240513\/revisions\/240515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}