Quote: "The [Australian] federal government’s previous position required new data centres to pay for grid upgrades, avoid pushing up household bills and source additional clean energy, rather than simply rely on existing supply. However, the new standards grant carve-outs...that must not compromise the government’s goals of lowering climate emissions and ensuring that energy remains affordable".

During the next decade, Australia's data centres are forecast to rise from 3% to 13% of operational electricity consumption in the national energy market (NEM).

Virtified's MacBook might be good enough. Stanford researchers dropped a research paper in mid-November that challenges the cloud-centric delivery model of AI inference due to the following factors. Here's my bottom line: The "Intelligence Per Watt" framework shows that appropriate AI models running on consumer devices are becoming viable for the majority of everyday queries.