If Anthropic is serious about building infrastructure at this scale in Australia, a rigorous options assessment against what these operators have already recognised about Victoria and South Australia should have preceded any tender process.
The US-based data centre specialist Iren announced in June that it is planning to build the city-scale project near the Bundey sub-station, around 75 km north-east of Adelaide.
David Crisafulli has sworn to stand his ground against rules that would require data centre projects to purchase their power from new renewable energy projects.
Councillor John Haddad, whose ward takes in Campbellfield, supported the motion, and said residents told him they did not fully understand what was being proposed at the former Ford site.
There are 165 data centres already in operation across the national electricity market, which covers all states and territories except Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
In August 2021, the Australia–Singapore Cable was damaged off Perth after the container ship Maersk Surabaya allegedly dragged its anchor through the protection zone.
