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18.48 EDTDatacentres ‘most contested pieces of infrastructure’, Charlton saysJosh TaylorThe assistant minister for the digital economy, Andrew Charlton, said in the past two years, datacentres have become “one of the most contested pieces of infrastructure in the world”, with advocates saying it could bring a new wave of economic value, while critics say they are “giant sheds … creating few jobs and risking some of the same mistakes we made in the resources boom”.In a speech to the Sydney Institute last night, Charlton said both sides contain important truths, but he said the boom was happening. He said: double quotation markIt’s accelerating. And it’s likely to be larger and more consequential than anything we’ve lived through in recent decades.
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