00:02Melbourne developer Quantum DC's proposal to build a data centre on 120 hectares of Adelaide Hills farmland has not gone
00:09down well.
00:10There is such deep frustration amongst the community, which was not our intent at all.
00:16And I admit we misread these responses and the only responsible thing to do now is to pause.
00:23The decision welcomed by protesters in Tunkillo who want the project scrapped for good.
00:27Community backlash so severe the local MP says nearly a thousand people contacted his office opposing it.
00:34There is a number of concerns that they've raised with me, particularly around power, water, infrastructure and environmental impacts.
00:41And that will affect them for generations to come.
00:43These guys need to take their hand. You know, pausing it isn't stopping it. We're no means no at this
00:48stage.
00:49While the Greens want a data centre moratorium, the industry's peak body says they can still contribute with new jobs,
00:55energy and water infrastructure.
00:56We need to better tell that story so that communities do see them as a net contributor.
01:01No one really wants them in their backyard because they don't understand what they're even needed for in the first
01:07place.
01:07The government's finalising new regulations for data centres and is standing by its decision to exclude them from the AI
01:13Royal Commission.
01:14We desperately need as a state to make sure we have a strong and strict regulatory framework to ensure that
01:21data centres aren't being built or even being proposed in places they shouldn't be.
01:24The back down in Tunkillo has demonstrated how politically toxic data centres can be, bringing together the Liberals, Greens and
01:32One Nation.
01:33Those three parties have also united to establish a parliamentary inquiry into the facilities without Labor's support.
01:40Their block of votes could make the government's life difficult as they try to negotiate tougher laws for data centres
01:46through the upper house.
01:47The government is looking for legislation, trying to identify the world without the problems that cannot make the rules.
01:47Basically the government does not have a right choice of the government should be done.
01:47The government should be seen.
01:48The government should be able to give a risk for theовой of government funding for the approved system.
01:48The government should be able to report very well-in- இ- SECON-Mm-ichen-hauled,
01:48The government should be in the medical community.
01:49You
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