Datacentre giant accused of using AI while lobbying for Victorian minister’s support for hyperscale factory

Datacentre giant accused of using AI while lobbying for Victorian minister’s support for hyperscale factory

Exclusive: Correspondence requests state MP Melissa Horne to lobby on NextDC’s behalf – but contains alleged AI-created errors

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The Victorian jobs minister has accused one of Australia’s largest datacentre companies of using artificial intelligence while requesting she lobby her colleague to approve a massive expansion of its “hyperscale AI factory”.

Correspondence between Victorian cabinet minister Melissa Horne and the chief executive of ASX-listed company NextDC, Craig Scroggie, reveals increasing sensitivity to community concerns about datacentres before the state election. Continue reading...

Read the full story at theguardian.com

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