Hundreds Demand Answers on AI Data Centre

Southland locals push back against $3.5 billion AI data centre

Political pressure and public scrutiny are growing over Datagrid’s proposed $3.5 billion AI data centre at Makarewa, following last week’s packed public meeting and continuing concerns about the project’s non-notified consent, resource demands, infrastructure impacts and wider data-sovereignty implications. As RCR reported last Thursday, hundreds of locals packed the Invercargill Workingmen’s Club to hear more about the company’s planned 78,000-…

Hundreds Demand Answers on AI Data Centre

Opponents of Southland's $3.5 billion AI data centre want Datagrid to show up and face them.Hundreds packed into the Invercargill Workingmen's Club on Wednesday night, concerned about the 78,000 square metre hyperscale facility planned for Makarewa. So many turned up that some were left standing in the hallway.Datagrid did not attend.Organiser Kelly Blomfield, from the Southland Sustainable Resource Coalition, was taken aback by the size of the …