That's .. WOW
10-12% of our entire generation capacity
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Rob🎸
The unpaywalled it!
".. the proposed $5 billion Datagrid artificial intelligence data centre has obtained Overseas Investment Office sign-off to expand from an initial 280MW to an absolutely eye-watering 1GW capacity, across a 49-hectare site in Makarewa, north of Invercargill." WTF
Kara Bee
At a time when NZ is desperately commissioning a billion dollar LNG terminal to avoid electricity shortages, it’s also signed off a 1GW AI data centre twice as power-hungry as Tiwai Point smelter. Jonathan Milne investigates.
