澳大利亚内阁秘书兼科技助理部长Andrew Charlton警告，若人工智能数据中心依靠煤炭或天然气发电，将导致家庭和企业电价上升1。他援引美国PJM电网的案例，指出该地区电价上涨超过60%，数据中心对此负有重大责任1。为应对这一风险，政府曾制定政策要求新数据中心采用新增可再生能源供电1。
然而，政府的立场在最近发生了调整。在周三召开的国家内阁会议中，昆士兰州和北领地获得协议，允许在这些地区使用煤炭和天然气为数据中心提供电力1，这意味着政府此前的政策主张出现退步。Charlton同时指出，人工智能将成为"重要的生产率增长来源"，但强调这种发展不能以就业为代价1。在通胀问题上，他表示政府已将通货膨胀率从"6字头"降至"3字头"，但仍需进一步改善1。
Australia's Cabinet Secretary and Assistant Minister for Technology Andrew Charlton has cautioned that artificial intelligence data centres powered by coal or natural gas could raise electricity prices for households and businesses.1 Charlton defended the government's initial policy requiring new data centres to use "new incremental energy, which is renewable energy."1 However, this position faced a setback when Queensland and Northern Territory secured agreement at Wednesday's national cabinet meeting to use coal and natural gas for powering data centres.1
Charlton pointed to international precedent, noting that electricity prices on the U.S. PJM grid surged more than 60 percent, with data centres accounting for a "big part of that."1 While acknowledging that artificial intelligence will become a "significant source of productivity gains," he stressed this cannot come at the expense of employment.1 On inflation management, Charlton stated the government had reduced the rate from "sixes" to "threes," though he acknowledged it remains "still too high."1
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