
This week OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman declared Australia could be a world leader in AI data centres. While Pope Leo XIV laid out a sweeping vision and a warning to safeguard humanity from AI's most harmful effects. Dozens of data centres are popping up on the fringes of our major cities, and big tech is lobbying the federal government to seize the opportunity and support their construction. But there are concerns that the trillion dollar industry is risking our environment, energy security, drinking water and copyright laws. Can big tech do this differently with the right regulations?
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