"The proposal bypassed local government and prompted Hume City Council, which includes the suburb of Broadmeadows, to pass a motion calling for a moratorium on data centre approvals in Victoria.
A further three councils, Melton, Brimbank and Maribyrnong, have since joined Hume in calling for a temporary halt on these types of projects.
Attracting data centres to Australia
While state governments court data centre investment, the federal government increasingly has its own expectations for what large data centres will deliver for Australia and the communities they are built in."
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