Ketan Joshi

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Hey, I'm a climate and energy writer / data analyst who focuses on corporate + govt accountability Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/ Based in Oslo but write about US, Europe, Aus too - ketan.joshi85@gmail.com

Mr Underwood said the project had the potential to generate tens of billions of dollars of investment and hundreds of jobs, but acknowledged there was still a long way to go before the project could become a reality. The data centre would require two gigawatts of power to operate — more than six times the maximum demand for all of Darwin and Katherine in 2024-25. Mr Underwood said if completed, the project would rival the scale of Western Australia's Ichthys LNG facility, one of gas giant Inpex's biggest oil projects in the world. He said the company planned to "deliberately oversize" the proposed Weddell power plant to feed energy into Darwin's energy grid, instead of drawing from it.
Calls for data centre moratorium Mr Underwood said the centre would present an opportunity to partner with renewable energy projects such as SunCable's proposed outback solar farm, but could not say to what extent renewable energy sources would be used.
However, the chances of a US-style off-grid gas boom are growing, as this is a tempting mode of rushed data centre expansion. A ‘shadow grid’ of fossil fuelled power stations has the ‘advantage’ for data centres of avoiding pushback about increased electricity bills whilst also serving as a major source of new demand for the gas industry. Compiled below are several early-stage examples of direct gas involvement in planned Australian data centre capacity: Table 2: Australian gas-fired data centre projects Project name Location Owner / associated company Gas capacity (gigawatts) Approximate annual emissions (MTCO2-e References and notes Beetaloo compute zone Northern Territory Tamboran 5 25.5 “The intersection of unconventional gas development with data centre power demand is another attractive opportunity for integrated development strategies. The Beetaloo Basin's resources position it favourably for co-located facilities” “I can see a world where we put on 5 gigawatts of data centres in the next 10 years” Tamboran CEO Joel Riddle, June 2025105 Cloud Carrier NSW Cloud Carrier 0.7 ~3 Emissions calculation detailed in report text Pilot energy carbon capture and storage Western Australia Pilot Energy 0.04 Unclear First megawatt became operational in April 2026, with plans for expansion106 Bonaparte project Northern Territory Vintage Energy / Vault Energy Not yet stated Unclear “In a departure from traditional gas-to-pipeline models, Vault Energy intends to use the gas produced onsite to generate power for modular, containerised data centres” Petroleum Australia107
Beetaloo Energy secures land for huge $40bn AI data centre near Darwin
News headline warning energy red tape could stall an AI data‑centre boom, illustrated by a smartphone showing ChatGPT text beside a towering data‑centre building with a busy crowd in the foreground, symbolizing technology, infrastructure and public impact.
Line and area chart showing Microsoft's emissions rising about 80% since 2020, with a gray shaded area for historical emissions, colored lines for unadjusted and adjusted emissions, and downward target and removal lines to 2030 that diverge from actuals.
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"If I could snap my fingers and make generative Al disappear forever, I probably would. Creatively, I get no enjoyment from using those tools. It defeats the purpose entirely for me." - Kane Parsons Backrooms Director
We know that companies will need to invest in skills and training to be successful. And we know they will need energy too. We will create a legal obligation for the next generation of large-scale data centres to underwrite new power supplyq To pay their full share of grid connection, so no costs are passed on to homes or businesses. And to put at least as much energy into our grid as they take out of it. To be net-generators, not net-users. To build new renewable generation —and firming — to strengthen our national energy resilience. And ensure data centres do not increase power prices for Australians. Australia is the sunniest continent on earth but we're also the driest. Which is why our rules will require data centres to minimise their water use, maximise their energy efficiency, and pay for additional water infrastructure required. These location, energy and water obligations take in every level of government and their overlapping powers.
AWS sustainability claims don't hold water, lawsuit alleges Ex-staffer accuses Amazon's Virginia datacenters of quietly guzzling H20 all year round, despite 'water positive' PR push Dan Robinson IT INFRA
And we know they will need energy too. We will create a legal obligation for the next generation of large-scale data centres to underwrite new power supply. To pay their full share of grid connection, so no costs are passed on to homes or businesses. And to put at least as much energy into our grid as they take out of it. To be net-generators, not net-users. To build new renewable generation – and firming – to strengthen our national energy resilience.
I sat through the Carbon Capture APAC Summit in Melbourne, an international gathering of carbon capture and storage (CCS) hopefuls. What struck me most was how many speakers remarked on seeing the same faces as they did last year. There are three CCS conferences scheduled in Melbourne this year alone. The fundraising and spruiking for this subsidy-reliant industry is in hyperdrive. Last year, the industry’s pitch was modest: CCS as ‘part of a suite of solutions’. This year, it had grown teeth, but beneath the surface was something closer to panic. Australia wasn’t sold as a country doing its bit. It was sold as a hub, somewhere with enough empty land and ocean to take everybody else’s carbon dioxide, too. Speakers from Singapore and Malaysia were unusually candid: Australia has vast, sparsely populated land and sea, geology practically begging to be a landfill for a region that’s run out of places to put its pollution.
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Summary • US says it hit hundreds of Iranian targets after ship attacks ⚫ Iran retaliates, multiple Gulf states targeted • Indian crew member missing after container vessel hit ⚫ Iran says it will restart shipping permits once calm restored WASHINGTON/DUBAI, July 12 (Reuters
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Line chart showing 2000–2024 avoided CO2e in Australia where a rising green line for renewables reaches a total of 749 while a thin red CCS line stays near zero at 11, illustrating renewables avoided about 68 times more emissions than CCS.
Area chart showing Woodside's actual emissions (green) staying above its declining targets (red) from FY24 to FY25, with the shaded gap annotated as filled by purchased carbon offsets — including CCS offsets from the North West Shelf/Santos.
From 2000–2024, Australian renewables avoided 68 times more emissions than CCS: a green upward curve labeled TOTAL RENEWABLE: 749 (megatonnes CO2e) versus a near-flat red line labeled TOTAL CCS: 11, illustrating renewables’ rising impact and CCS’s near-zero effect.
Line chart comparing planned versus actual carbon-capture capacity: multiple report-year projection lines rise sharply from the mid-2020s while a red shaded area for actual operational CCS stays low and flat through 2024, showing planned capacity far exceeds realized.
Chevron eyes more deals to power US data centers By Laila Kearney and Sheila Dang June 26, 20266:32 PM GMT+2Updated June 26, 2026
The oil company pivoting to carbon storage and data centers By CAMILLE VON KAENEL 06/26/2026 07:31 PM EDT With help from Alex Nieves
Siemens' new data‑centre gas turbines could add 74–188 MtCO2e per year, a range equivalent to the total annual emissions of Pakistan and Chile, shown as colored bars comparing country emissions.
Chart showing Northern Territory annual power-sector CO2e emissions rising from roughly 0.5 Mt in 1990 to about 2.5–3 Mt by 2024, with a narrow red bar at the far right labeled "Project Ares" indicating a much smaller single-project emission.
No question whether ABC staff will use AI: executives In an all-staff email sent on June 25, managing director Hugh Marks and chief people officer Deena Amorelli outlined the ABC's new approach to AI. "The question facing every public broadcaster is not whether they will use AI, but how they will shape the use of AI on their terms and in line with their values," Mr Marks and Ms Amorelli wrote. The email revealed that the ABC had selected US company Anthropic's Claude AI as its standard enterprise-wide AI tool, in addition to existing tools from Microsoft and an in-house chatbot. The rollout would begin with a July pilot involving 100 "AI Champions" from across the organisation before being expanded in stages, they said.
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reneeleegreco 13h ❌️💧Meta's closed loop cooling system at a new data center in Wyoming unlawfully released a rare bacterium into a city's wastewater system, contaminating the reuse system, prompting months of cleanup, its permit revoked, and a suspension on more data center discharges It took more than 4 months for the city to investigate and publicly identify Meta as the culprit, even though it suspended Meta's permit back in March, suggesting it new the culprit a long time ago but withheld the info. 1 / 2 Reply to reneeleegreco... reneeleegreco 13h The bacterium found is not routinely tested for. 2 / 2
Post See new posts Conversation Hedgie @HedgieMarkets 🦔Google's electricity consumption jumped from 31 to 43 terawatt hours in a single year, the largest increase in the company's history. Google now uses more electricity than New Zealand. Emissions rose 18%. Water consumption climbed 34% to 10.9 billion gallons. My Take Google's electricity didn't just grow. The rate at which it grew also grew. That's exponential, and Google admitted it when it said AI infrastructure expands faster than the power grid can decarbonize. If you know you're building faster than the grid can handle and you keep going, the climate target isn't hard to reach. You gave up on it and haven't said so. Google claims its products avoided 41 million tonnes of emissions in 2025, more than the company's entire footprint. Most of that comes from Google crediting itself for clean energy projects that used Google Earth to pick a site. By that logic Google Docs helped write every climate policy drafted on it. Amazon now emits more than New Zealand and Henrico County asked its teachers to turn off the lights so data centers could stay on. The companies pledged net zero before the AI buildout and every one of them went backward. Google's report says the path won't be linear. They're right. It's exponential, in the wrong direction. Hedgie🤗
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Brownsville Energy Storage Terminals is a real LLC. But everything on its website — from its history of the company, to its job postings, a diversity and inclusion policy — appears to be fictional. But perhaps more troubling is that Google, the proprietor of the world’s primary research tool, has rolled out AI Overviews that can indiscriminately take in fake material and authoritatively spit it back out as real.
Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social My basic question for people critical of Al's climate impacts is: There's a product that 1 billion people are using weekly (and let's say another 1 billion people hate). How much is a reasonable amount for that product to emit? What are the general rules you're using to decide? 07:17 25 Jun 2026 Everybody can reply
Before reading this post, I think it would be really useful for you to write down your own climate ethics rules that are consistent with each other, and that together explain why each of the following statements is wrong, even though the carbon claims are factual. I've chosen each to force you to consider a specific ethical problem with dealing with climate I think is important: "Because electric cars will rise to emit more than data centers, we should try to end the electric car industry before the data center industry." "New York City emits about ten times as much as all global yachts. Before asking people to sell their yachts, we need to find ways to shut down New York City and have people move elsewhere." "A new popular candy bar has appeared that a lot of people are buying. It's a new industry, so making the candy bar is adding new emissions to the air that wouldn't have happened otherwise, and we're already in a climate crisis, so we can't afford any new emissions right now. Because the candy bar is new, it deserves special attention and condemnation." "Catholic environmentalists have gotten together and found a promising place to cut for the environment: Protestant churches. Not only do they emit around 10 megatons of CO2 in America alone each year, but they also add no social value because they're promoting a false religion, so literally all their CO2 emissions are wasted on something bad and cutting their emissions also makes society better for other reasons." "There's a new movie that 20% of people love and 80% of people hate. Showing it everywhere is using a lot of emissions. You personally hate the movie and think it's adding no artistic value, so all of those emissions are wasted, and only a small number of people like it anyway. This makes it worse than other things we do, because at least other things add some value with their emissions, so you should put special effort into stopping the movie from being shown for the sake of the climate." I chose the…
Person cooling off under mist from an opened fire hydrant on a city sidewalk, tilting their head back to catch water — illustrating people seeking relief during an extreme, climate-driven heat wave. The New York Times Heat and humidity as severe, prolonged and far-reaching as this week’s would have been “virtually impossible” in the Northeast and eastern Canada before humans began warming the planet, a team of scientists said on Friday. Without Climate Change, U.S. Heat Wave Called ‘Virtually Impossible’ Scientists have said the conditions are the result of a climate that is “fundamentally different” from the time before fossil fuel use started rapidly warming the world.
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STAMFORD, Conn., November 1, 2021 Gartner Predicts Half of Cloud Data Centers Will Deploy Robots with AI Capabilities by 2025 Robots to Help Alleviate Staff Shortage Challenges Plaguing Data Center Industry By 2025. half of cloud data centers will deploy advanced robots with artificial intelligence (Al) and machine learning (ML) capabilities, resulting in 30% higher operating efficiency, according to Gartner. Inc. "The gap between growing server and storage volumes at data centers, and the number of capable works to manage them all is expanding," said Sid Nag, research vice president at Gartner. "The risk of doing nothing to address these shortcomings is significant for enterprises. "Data center operations will only increase in complexity as organizations move more diverse workloads to the cloud, and as the cloud becomes the platform for a combinatorial use Of additional technologies such as edge and 5G, to name a few." Robots Are Ideal for the Tedious and Repetitive Nature of Data Centers The majority of the work that takes place in a data center is tedious, complex and repetitive. Examples include capacity planning. rightsizing virtual machine and container environments. or guaranteeing the efficient use of resources to avoid "cloud waste" for enterprises and their buyers. These are all areas where robots excel. "Data centers are an ideal sector to pair robots and AI to
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Search Kane Thornton Leading transformation Board & executive leader En h X It was going to take something pretty special to get me excited. about returning to executive work after an amazing break. I found it This week I started with CDC Data Centres. I was looking for a sector that is complex, challenging and central to Australia's future. Data centres sit at the intersection of digital infrastructure, energy, capital investment, technology and public policy. Few sectors present a bigger opportunity-or bigger challenges to solve. CDC stood out because it is serious about developing sovereign Australian digital infrastructure, applying world-class technology, and thoughtfully managing its impacts on the energy system, water resources and local communities. Beyond the mission, I wanted to work with people who are thinking for the long term. With backing from Infratil, the Future Fund and Commonwealth Super Corporation, CDC stands out with a 20 year track record along with ambitious plans for the future. For me, the role strikes a perfect balance with something new and challenging, while drawing on my experience across the energy transition. It also brings me full circle to where my career began-in information technology. And I'm back with great people working to a big purpose There is significant work ahead to ensure the right policy settings, regulatory frameworks and community outcomes are in place as this sector continues to grow. If we get it right, Australia has the opportunity to be both a clean energy superpower and a digital infrastructure leader. I'm looking forward to contributing. Fn 3 Home My Network + Post Notifications Jubs
View Jeffrey Brown Ⓥ’s profile Jeffrey Brown Ⓥ • 2nd 2026, the COLDEST YEAR of the REST OF YOUR LIFE Book an appointment 15h • Edited • Connect I work in climate. I will spend the rest of my life in it. And I am unapologetically PRO-AI. Not despite the crisis. Because of it. AI is one of the only tools humanity has invented that compounds the three things this fight is starving for: intelligence, speed, and capital efficiency. In the hands of people who know how to use it, one analyst becomes ten. One diligence cycle becomes one afternoon. Capital that used to take 18 months to structure moves in weeks. That is not a threat to climate work. That IS climate work. "But the data centers" Stop. That's not a technology failure. That's a POLICY failure. Our politicians could require, tomorrow, that every data center comes with its own new, clean, additional generation and storage. Built by the provider, not siphoned from your grid. Hyperscalers have the deepest balance sheets on Earth. Force them to build the power they consume and you don't just neutralize the footprint, you detonate the battery revolution, because nothing accelerates storage innovation like trillion-dollar companies that legally cannot plug in without it. We didn't demand it. That failure has names and office addresses. And one more thing, because I'm tired of the selective outrage: Data centers: roughly 1.5% of global electricity, ~0.5% of global CO2 (IEA). Animal agriculture: roughly 12–15% of ALL human-caused emissions (FAO) — plus staggering water use, land use, chronic disease costs our healthcare systems eat, and a moral ledger most of us refuse to open. Check your plate before you check my prompts. #AI #ClimateTech #NatureBasedSolutions #EnergyPolicy #FoodSystems #Anthropic #Claude #Climate #Veganism
Even so, Norway is charging ahead. The state heavily incentivises risk-taking in northern regions by footing up to 78 percent of the exploration bill. One of the most significant fields still to come is Wisting, a large offshore field in the northern Barents Sea that would extend production in the region by decades if developed. State-controlled Equinor is currently weighing whether to move ahead with development, but industry expectations are that it will move ahead at the end of next year. An open question is whether the project will be profitable enough. Støre, in any case, is doing his utmost to line up future European buyers.
Infographic showing planned U.S. data-center power plants could emit 662 million tons of greenhouse gases per year — equal to emissions from 140 million cars driven for one year or the entire nation of Australia (28 million people).
Stacked area chart showing that the vast majority of captured CO2 has been used to extract more fossil fuels, with the red area (used for fossil extraction) rising sharply since ~2010 while the thin green area (stored underground) remains small from 1996–2024.