“What we are very mindful about here is that you’ve got to get the social licence right in respect of datacentres – where they’re built, and the place where they shouldn’t be built is in suburbs – and also making sure that the right power and the right water is brought to these datacentres,”

Richard Marles · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-06

Marles observed that cost-of-living and datacentre anxiety was at play in both Australia and the US.