Tag: water

We don’t have the data on data centres’ impact

Posted on   |  by Michael Vardon
Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would...

Investors press tech giants on data centre power, water use

Posted on   |  by Simon Jessop, Valerie Volcovici and Supantha Mukherjee
Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet’s Google have each recently abandoned construction of multibillion-dollar data centres over community opposition and now the companies are coming under shareholder pressure over the environmental...

Australian water tech goes global

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The CSIRO’s world-first ground to space water quality monitoring system will be trialled in California in a significant expansion for the national science agency mission. The $83 million AquaWatch...

Circular Economy framework to be unveiled by end of year

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
A national circular economy framework that outlines innovation priorities for guiding Australian industry toward the multi-billion opportunities of circular economy practices will be released by the end of the...

Digital tech and Israeli water management

Posted on   |  by David McClure
Australia and Israel are at once similar and different in the way they handle water management, but as digitisation disrupts water technology both countries must make their water systems...