Australia's data centre dilemma (Leithvo)

This week's Treasury of Common Sense on Radio 2GB/4BC discusses the energy dilemma pertaining to Australia's data centre boom.



Good Leith van Onselen clip, talking about the fact there's not enough power generation for these data centres or for mass migration population increases, and the mass uptake of EVs, plus other stuff. It's a disaster in the making, where massive increases in power bills of over 20 percent are on the cards.

Meanwhile coal is being exported to Asia while Australia is shutting down this form of power. It's off the scale mismanagement. The former boss of the ACTU, and a former Labor MP, Jennie George, has written an article criticising this folly that's on Leith's website. The call is to throw away whatever your political allegiance might have been and speak the truth to avoid future impoverishment.

Please check out the video, and don't vote for the major parties that caused this mess.

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, June 9, 2026.]