More essential work from the incredible @ketanjoshi.co. 20GW in just one country is an obscene amount of energy (= 20 nuclear power stations). Why, once again, can’t they make smaller, less energy-sucking models? Scaling at all costs is totally incompatible with a viable planet and has to stop now
James Martin
A brand new piece for Crikey: digging into what happens now for Australia's data centre debate
Anthropic, planning 20GW, would have to build 1.7x the amount of all renewable energy ever built in Australia to date, to meet the 100% mandate.
www.crikey.com.au/2026/06/10/m...
