Powering Change: Data centre opportunities across the Asia Pacific

Episode notes

In the latest episode of our Powering Change mini-series, Ashurst's Bree Miechel is joined by special guest Simon McFadden, a digital infrastructure expert at Aurecon. Together, they discuss how data centres - often referred to as "the factories of the digital age" - are evolving to keep pace with demand in Australia, the Asia Pacific and beyond. Simon reveals the inside story of Aurecon's extensive work across the data development lifecycle and explains why proximity to urban hubs, skilled labour, and supply chains remain vital, even as conversations around rural, renewables-linked data centres attract attention. He also tackles pressing issues such as water scarcity, artificial intelligence and regulation, and weighs up the relative merits of utility-scale batteries and modular nuclear reactors. To listen to this episode, and to

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