Northern Territory push to bypass grid-connection queues for AI data centres
Gas producers and advisers are promoting Australia’s Northern Territory as an AI data-centre base where developers could bypass grid-connection queues by building their own power-generating units.
Gas producers and advisers backing Australia’s Northern Territory as a site for AI data centres say developers can sidestep grid-connection queues that are delaying projects in the populous southeast by building their own power generation units. The pitch from companies seeking to position the region as an alternative for data-centre development frames on-site power as a way to avoid the bottlenecks affecting other parts of the country.