"The Grid cant handle EV uptake!"
"no worries data center, guzzle all the energy, guzzle all the water"
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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.