AI data centres need round-the-clock energy and could be more power-hungry than we think

Kevin Rudd was less than a year into his first, ill-fated prime ministership, Ricky Ponting was the captain of the Australian Test cricket side and social media platform Facebook was sweeping the world by storm.

It was also a time of rising demand for electricity.

In fact, up until that time, demand for electricity had been rising steadily for as long as anyone could remember.

There was a basic equation that seemed to explain it — as the economy grew, so, too, did our need for power.

Merryn York, who was at the time working at Queensland state-owned transmission company Powerlink, says the equation was the bedrock of planning for the grid.

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