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Data Centers Push Victoria’s Energy Limits | Australia News
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- Sep 17, 2026
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Victoria’s Golden Plains Wind Farm is set to nearly double its capacity to 1.3 gigawatts to meet soaring demand from tech giants like Amazon and Equinix, fueling Australia’s explosive data center boom—especially in Melbourne, where energy use could quadruple by 2030 thanks to AI. But this growth strains infrastructure: communities protest water and power demands, councils halt new projects, and aging coal plants retire, leaving Victoria on a knife’s edge with looming brownouts and price hikes unless new renewables and transmission lines like VNI West get built fast. Listen in comfort: Get a discount on a Soli Pillow: http://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN: [email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting. Sources: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-17/datacentre-boom-revives-vic-transmission-fight/107155564 More coverage & latest updates: https://sources.thednn.ai/9c8d38498f979ef1 Report issues to [email protected].