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Established in 1994, Communications Day is the authoritative source for commercial, regulatory, political and technology news and analysis for telecommunications in Australia and New Zealand. Delivered every working day to a reader base of C-level executives, regulators, government and opposition ministers and their staff, CommsDay provides essential business intelligence and a key competitive advantage for anyone working in the ANZ telecoms sector.

 

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in today’s issue of commsday

  • The federal government will legislate a national regulatory framework for large AI data centres, requiring operators to fund new electricity supply, pay their grid connection costs and reduce consumption when the power system is under pressure.

  • Business groups have warned the Albanese government that mandatory energy and water obligations for AI data centres could drive investment offshore, opening an immediate fault line over the centrepiece of its new national AI framework.

  • The Australian Telecommunications Alliance has called for the Australian Energy Regulator to recognise the growing interdependency of telecom and energy networks in its proposed new Network Resilience Guidelines.

  • A CSIRO research project has concluded that the commercial case for investing in telco resilience is “challenging,” citing competing demands including evolving network technologies and insufficient grant funding.

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