Category: Headline Australia News

Can Melbourne Afford to Give AI 20 Billion Litres of Drinking Water?

Melbourne’s water future is being quietly rewritten in the server rooms of an AI boom the city hasn’t really voted on yet. While storages are officially “secure” today, the combination of record‑low inflows and a tidal wave of new data‑centre water requests is turning a background planning issue into a live question about what – and who – our drinking water is really for.

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Australia’s AI Plan: Safety Net or High‑Tech Illusion?

Australia’s National AI Plan is pitched as a way to “capture the opportunity, spread the benefits, and keep Australians safe”. In reality, it marks a decisive choice: accelerate AI adoption under existing laws and a new safety institute, rather than impose hard new rules on powerful systems.

For a technology that is rapidly becoming critical infrastructure, that choice matters far more than the plan’s glossy language. It defines who carries the risk of AI gone wrong—and who walks away with the upside.

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