Good morning readers, and welcome to our live news blog for Friday, October 16.
Making headlines today is news from Perth’s east where, fresh from a battle against a $600 million data centre, Hazelmere residents are girding for a second fight as another tech giant sets its sights on their neighborhood.
Five months after GreenSquareDC was forced to withdraw its application for a $600 million data centre near the banks of the Helena River due to public outcry, a Canberra-based developer hopes to have more luck.
Canberra Data Centres (CDC) is looking to build a $337 million four-storey centre at 178 and 196 Bushmead Road around two kilometres from the proposed GreenSquareDC site.