⏱️This edition of the National Account’s newsletter is a five-minute read.
👋 G’day everyone, Archie here.
It’s been a very busy day today with so much exciting stuff in the pipeline. If you aren’t already subscribed to our YouTube channel, make sure you take a look and do so. That’s where I upload all of the interviews I use in my other reporting.
But for today, I’ve go the rundown on what the hell a “data centre” actually is. Plus: the numbers on how much public money is going to the big political parties just to fund their own think tanks.
So let’s crack on with the news 🗞️
Megawatt sounds like a very small amount of energy. But if it's a large scale data centre that equates to the usage of a small town
🗣️ Why did he say that?
Across the country more and more data centres are are popping up, with large chunks of the public not really understanding what they are or what the hell they actually do.
Every photo you store in the cloud, every ChatGPT prompt, every email that isn't saved on your computer — it's all running through a data centre somewhere.
Someone who has done a fair bit of reporting on the data centre’s in his own neck of the woods is the North Shore Lorikeet’s Huw Bradshaw.
I had a chat with him to find out what these things actually do, and what they could be costing us?
Checkout the full interview below:
Why do we pay for this? 🧠
Australia's major political parties have their own think tanks and you and I are paying for them. But what do we get in return for this public investment; a bunch of reports that tow the funding parties line?
Is that really worth $1 million dollars a year?
Check out my rundown below:
And read more of Huw’s reporting here:
Thanks for catching up with me. I hope you enjoyed this issue, and I’d love to hear your thoughts. Just reply to this email and I’ll be on the other side 👋
I’ll be back on Friday.
Cheers, Archie