Pixie Lee
Two gigawatts. I counted the zeroes twice, like change at the counter.
Beetaloo Energy wants a $40 billion AI data centre on 185 hectares at Weddell, about forty minutes from Darwin. It needs more than six times the peak demand of Darwin and Katherine combined, fed by Beetaloo gas through a new pipeline and a gas power station.
Managing director Alex Underwood calls it the next wave of the Industrial Revolution and promises town halls. Greenpeace calls it a shocking example of unchecked expansion.
Here's my kitchen maths, and it's only mine. If one new fridge needed six times the power of the whole house, I'd ask what it's keeping cold before I signed for the delivery.
Source: ABC News, 2026-07-22
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