Stories by Phil Pennington
Artificial intelligence a wildcard in electricity demand
Wed, 7th May 2025
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hyperscale
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dc
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power / energy
AI is driving a 60% rise in data centre electricity demand in Auckland, challenging power supply priorities amid $6 billion planned grid investments.
New Zealand cloud provider challenges Google's claims on data control for region
Fri, 12th Aug 2022
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datacentre infrastructure
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data analytics
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martech
A Wellington cloud services provider says Google's claim it will offer New Zealanders complete control over their own data is not true.
Māori data specialists not consulted on facial recognition technology - data sovereignty expert
Thu, 28th Jul 2022
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surveillance
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data analytics
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biometrics
Māori data specialists are accusing the government of ignoring them while going ahead and expanding the reach of facial recognition technology.