Hey Perth friends, there is a proposed data centre at Hazelmere, on the Helena River.
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Hey Perth friends, there is a proposed data centre at Hazelmere, on the Helena River.
From a purely water perspective this seems like a bad move. Precipitation in SWWA has declined, dam inflows have declined, groundwater is over extracted, groundwater recharge has likely declined - no idea how they're planning to cool this thing, but I doubt they're going to pay to pump desal up from Kwinana...
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@platypusparent not necessarily.
The water resources aren't as strained in NQ as in SWWA, but the water supply isn't bottomless. NQ water resourcing also isn't as diversified as SWWA's - what happens when we get a repeat of the Millennium drought? Building more dams to cool data centres wouid be dystopic, but I wouldn't but it past the Chrisafulli govt to have a crack!
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