The facilities use a lot of energy, but could also be tapped as a local power source for buildings or precincts – if Australia’s laws allow it.
Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo account for 62 per cent of the Asia Pacific region’s operational data centre capacity.
“The data centre wants cool water going in and will expel hot water,” Mr Vollugi said. “It enables it to be used in domestic hot water applications as well as hot water applications in a building or precinct.” “Laws and regulations don’t really recognise ... the export of energy either by way of hot water, steam or electricity from a facility where it is generated to neighbouring utilities such as apartment blocks, council centres, libraries.”Although NSW laws governing pipelines could potentially allow the private export of private hot water or steam, the Victorian equivalent did not include either as a product for which a pipeline licence could be obtained, Mr Kudnig said.
Walt Coulston, the founder and chief executive of GreenSquareDC, which owns assets including the 96-megawatt WA1 data centre in Perth, said Australia was lagging in its ability to use data centres as a source of energy, but it would become necessary to do so.“With the proliferation we’re going to experience over the next seven years with generative AI, there is a very real chance that as a sector we will be consuming between 10 and 30 per cent of the global grid.
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