• FireWire400@lemmy.world
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    “steer the sustainable development of the sector in New South Wales.”

    Nothing sustainable about it but sure, go ahead and destroy everything for the sake of profits.

    I haven’t even moved to Australia yet and I’m already getting mad at everything that happens there…

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      Profits? It’s not even financially sustainable.

      The 3 sisters in Katoomba is an absolute spectacle of natural beauty. It’s a nice, friendly country town. Not the kind of people that would want or need a data centre.

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        23 hours ago

        The 3 sisters in Katoomba is an absolute spectacle of natural beauty.

        Been there last year and it’s absolutely stunning. I really hope the whole thing will be stopped somehow, would be a great shame for it to be destroyed just like that.

        Profits? It’s not even financially sustainable.

        Why is every other company doing this then? FOMO? I guess building up reliance on AI and then switching to a billing model that actually makes them money, but I can’t see that working out too well considering the public opinion of AI worsens by the second.

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      It is a retired hippie stronghold AFAIK so there is no way it goes through. Even if it is a foreign investor, why would they not have known this?

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        it’s not a marginal so hippies can’t stop shit.

        the appropriate donations for access will be made, back room deal will be done, and it’ll get declared a state significant development, cutting council out of it.

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          24 hours ago

          Good point but this will be a huge battle nevertheless and educate the complacent public about how these data centres operate.