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Amazon gives up building its own Auckland data centre, as power prices soar (newsroom.co.nz)

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[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 2 points 3 weeks ago

We have abundant renewables but they are not sufficient and the cost of fuel keeps going up. Also our transmission infrastructure is utter trash.

We desperately need to triple our power generation capability in order to accomodate our current and future needs and that means a massive investment in every means of generation possible including nuclear.