00:02It's been touted as a world-scale computing hub, delivering 1,400 ongoing jobs once it's
00:10fully operational.
00:11Those jobs will range in many skills and technical requirements.
00:15But a day after AI giant Anthropic struck a deal to occupy the proposed data hub near
00:21Dalby on Queensland's Western Downs, the CATA party wants to hit the brakes.
00:26This needs to be treated with extreme caution and we wouldn't be in favour of bulldozing
00:33these things through as fast as possible.
00:34Urging state and federal governments to safeguard Queensland's agricultural industry before
00:40it rolls out the red carpet to foreign companies.
00:44I think Queensland was sold a lemon when they said coexistence would be easily achieved with
00:50the gas industry and with the renewable energy industry, so now we've got another one.
00:55The facility, which is still subject to council approval, could draw as much power as one
01:01and a half million households, prompting calls for a duplication of the nearby Cogan Creek
01:07coal-fired power station to help run it.
01:10It would be the cheapest and quickest way to duplicate a significant amount of energy
01:16very quickly along with complemented gas in the area.
01:20And he's gone a step further, proposing nuclear energy also be considered.
01:26I think we're getting to a point where technology is outstripping energy supply.
01:31It's this cumulative impact on our land, our infrastructure and our energy,
01:36which we are saying needs upfront strategic planning invested in now.
01:40The Premier has promised the data centre investment will drive down power prices for Queenslanders.
01:47But when the opposition asked for proof, David Christofili didn't table any modelling in Parliament,
01:53only reiterated his guarantee.
01:55.
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