{"id":1046286,"date":"2026-11-02T07:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T02:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1046286"},"modified":"2026-11-02T08:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T02:38:15","slug":"australian-outback-data-centre-pulls-timeline-after-regulator-stalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/02\/australian-outback-data-centre-pulls-timeline-after-regulator-stalls\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian outback data centre pulls timeline after regulator stalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The developer of one of Australia&#8217;s biggest planned data centres scrapped its target start date after a regulator said it needed longer than usual to set environmental parameters, a setback to the country&#8217;s ambitions to be a fast-track destination for AI investment. <\/p>\n<p>Startup Energy North, which says it has finance lined up for a sprawling gas and solar-powered data centre on a cattle ranch in the country&#8217;s remote north, 683 km (424 miles) from the nearest city, had given a &#8220;first power&#8221; date of June 28, 2028, in regulatory filings four months ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The developer of one of Australia&#8217;s biggest planned data centres scrapped its target start date after a regulator said it needed longer than usual to set environmental parameters, a setback to the country&#8217;s ambitions to be a fast-track destination for AI investment. Startup Energy North, which says it has finance lined up for a sprawling gas and solar-powered data centre on a cattle ranch in the country&#8217;s remote north, 683 km (424 miles) from the nearest city, had given a &#8220;first power&#8221; date of June 28, 2028, in regulatory filings four months ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046313,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046286\/revisions\/1046313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}