The AI revolution is coming to the Murraylands, with two major data centres proposed to be built in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A data centre is essentially a warehouse full of computer processors, designed to perform the functions that make cloud storage and AI systems work, and connected to the internet in much the same way as a power plant might be connected to the grid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Much fanfare has been made about plans by a company called Firmus to build one such facility north of Tailem Bend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition, another company, Skylab Australia, plans to build a second data centre at Cooke Plains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The two facilities would have quite different operating models, with one much bigger in scale and the other co-located alongside a new solar farm \u2013 more on that below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Neither data centre has yet received development approval from the state government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Premier Peter Malinauskas has indicated his strong support for what he described as a \u201cgenerational economic opportunity\u201d, even announcing plans for a state Data Centre and AI Infrastructure Act<\/em> that would streamline the approval process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Firmus and Skylab Australia are planning to build major industrial facilities in the Murraylands. Here\u2019s what that could mean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90574,"featured_media":505648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,35,12785],"tags":[15471,7527],"class_list":["post-505647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","category-data-centre","tag-peter-malinauskas","tag-south-australia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t