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Australian Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen has said he will use federal power to force states to fall into line with his plan to require data centres to fully offset their electricity use

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Australian Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen has said he will use federal power to force states to fall into line with his plan to require data centres to fully offset their electricity use

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Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 12 days ago

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Yeah as soon as I read “offset” I’m like “oh, it’s creative accounting”.

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