Tasmania to pursue data centre expectations alongside federal laws


David Allen
Reporter

Tasmania will develop data centre expectations to sit over the federal government’s brewing national framework, as local scrutiny of a trio of AI factories planned for the state’s north intensifies.

The state’s Liberal government has faced snowballing questions from opposition and crossbench politicians about the energy and water use of three data centres being developed by Australian tech company Firmus as part of its Project Southgate.

Responding to a series …

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