00:02A new strategy for a controversial industry.
00:05This is a technology that is not going anywhere.
00:07As localised debates rage over new energy intensive AI data centres,
00:12the government wants to regulate their development.
00:15We only want them in South Australia if it's in the interests of our people and our state more broadly.
00:20New laws will make it easier to get them off the ground,
00:23while ensuring their heavy use of energy won't impact the grid or people's power bills.
00:28We're not going to have a situation in South Australia where someone builds 500 megawatt data centre and then just
00:33plugs in.
00:34Effectively sitting there and saying, yes, we're going to open the door and we want you to come, but there
00:39are guardrails.
00:40But given their demand for water and energy, not everyone's on board.
00:44The focus of AI and big tech is on making enormous profits and they're drawing on our natural resources to
00:52do so.
00:53We need to make sure that the infrastructure that's being put in isn't imposing on our primary production land as
00:59well, which is vitally important.
01:00Data centres have become a huge source of controversy in the United States, built with generous tax breaks and blame
01:07for rising power prices.
01:09But the industry argues it will be different in South Australia because they'll be paying for their own infrastructure.
01:15They did offer massive tax incentives to build data centres and they didn't make them pay their own way and
01:20they're now scrambling to try to fix that.
01:22We're not asking for government subsidies.
01:24Hoping to get ahead of a foreseeable problem.
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