By Saloni Sinha ( May 1, 2026, 08:17 GMT | Insight) -- Australia risks becoming a “consumer of someone else’s technology” unless it accelerates investment in data centers, an industry group told a state parliamentary inquiry on Friday. In a New South Wales parliamentary inquiry on data centers, Belinda Dennett, chief executive of industry body Data Centres Australia, said data centers are critical and essential infrastructure generating the “highest gross value added per unit of energy” of any industrial sector. Australia risks becoming a “consumer of someone else’s technology” unless it accelerates investment in data centers, an industry group told a state parliamentary inquiry on Friday....
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