Gas company Beetaloo Energy has rebranded as Beetaloo Digital as part of an attempt to use data centre investment to drive more fossil fuel energy expansion. Justin Tutty reports.
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Tom Sulston, from Digital Rights Watch, joined Green Left Radio to discuss the government’s policy on artificial intelligence.
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Ever since Western Australian-based company Lynas Rare Earths set up its rare earth refinery near the Malaysian city of Kuantan, it has faced strong community opposition based on well-founded concerns about the plant’s radioactive waste. Peter Boyle reports.
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Telstra’s network outage cut millions of people off from communication. Dom Williams argues that the solution is to take this essential infrastructure back into public hands.
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As record-breaking heatwaves scorch the northern hemisphere and another El Niño summer is predicted here, new research from The Australia Institute says Labor’s safeguard mechanism is failing. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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Environmental activists have applauded a decision by the Greenlandic government to reject an extension to a controversial exploration license held by Western Australia-based mining company Energy Transition Minerals, reports Peter Boyle.
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The rise of One Nation comes off the back of four decades of neoliberalism delivering declining wages, less union strength and a worsening housing crisis. Zane Alcorn argues that a robust campaign for public housing could help take the wind out of its sails.
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The investment boom in generative artificial intelligence, spurring the rapid build of data centres across Victoria, is raising widespread concerns. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
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The rapid deployment of new data centres to power artificial intelligence systems, such as chatbots and generative AI, has enormous and possibly damaging implications for energy systems and the climate, argues Isaac Nellist.
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The massive investment in data centres to power rapid artificial intelligence growth has come under scrutiny for their enormous energy and water use. On this episode of the Green Left Show, Isaac Nellist talks to Ketan Joshi, Abigail Boyd and Sanaa Shah about the impact of data centres on climate and communities.
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Protesters gathered outside the venue where multinational arms manufacturer Thales was hosting drinks with defence, industry and government leaders. Leo Earle reports.
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Marxist economist Michael Roberts recently spoke to ecosocialist Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus about his new book, Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System.