The water and energy demand of coming AI data centres in New Zealand is presently getting considerable attention. The supply of cooling water for the centres is actually a distraction because it is just a matter of having suitable locations. […] The real issue is about energy. The already-consented Datagrid
Locals packed the Invercargill Workingmen’s Club to hear more about the company’s planned 78,000-square-metre facility at Makarewa. They questioned the complex’s electricity demand, noise, water use and potential infrastructure impacts.
How three government agencies are ignoring twenty years of e-discovery technology – and using their own backwardness against OIA requesters.
Be like the man alone fishing on the shore and never succumb to the lie that the act of DOING is something that needs to be sped up or removed from the human equation. DOING is not far from BEING.
The cameras are watching. The databases are growing. The networks are connecting. Unless we act now, there may soon be nowhere left to go without the government knowing exactly where we have been.
We need to save childhood without destroying adult freedom.
Time and again, private enterprise and competition deliver results while government scientists simply collect grants.
Australians have all the downsides of authoritarian government, without even the scant benefits.
Education Minister Erica Stanford’s office was in damage control on Tuesday afternoon, emailing the Post saying the government was “not looking at restricting or banning VPNs”.
If you don’t physically own it, you don’t own it at all.
PILLAR will now begin engaging with members of parliament, legal experts and civil society organisations with the goal of introducing the proposal to parliament. Nathan Seiuli says the choice facing New Zealand is bigger than social media.
In April, IRD noted it had “identified 355,000 unique crypto-asset users in New Zealand, undertaking around 57 million transactions, with a value of $36 billion”.
