AI data centres are springing up in communities across the country. Now, residents are fighting back

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Communities across Australia are organizing against proposed AI data centres, including one planned close to a school and just 16 metres from a home. Residents are concerned about the effects of the large facility and have begun campaigning against it.

For these locals, the prospect of a vast new data centre – just one block away from a school and 16 metres from a home – was too much. So they got to work.