Spiralling costs for the clean energy build-out threaten to derail Australia’s ambitions to capture a significant share of the burgeoning data centre market, energy industry executives and regulators warn.
Clare Savage, chairwoman of the Australian Energy Regulator, which is responsible for overseeing electricity industry spending on behalf of consumers, said mounting pressures in the equipment supply chain for transmission, challenges facing contractors and rising labour costs all posed threats.
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