Major data centre players have distanced themselves from startling claims by the Property Council of Australia that NSW risked missing out on billions of dollars in infrastructure investment if the state did not release a data centre strategy.
One large Australian data centre builder/operator rejected a Property Council claim that a “blanket ban” had been put on new data centres in the Macquarie Park area in Sydney. No such ban exists. Other’s queried why the Property Council would speak publicly on behalf of an industry it does not represent.
The Property Council’s NSW executive director Katie Stevenson used the council Unlocking Data Centres event in Sydney on Wednesday to urge the Premier to emulate the federal government’s consultation with the data centre industry to “secure our future digital infrastructure.”
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