Plans underway for tech giant Oracle to build data centres powered by small nuclear reactors

Amazon Web Services is also planning data centres in Auckland, although the cloud giant's plans, part of a "$7.5 billion promised investment schedule in New Zealand, appear to have hit a snag and been put on hold"

"The council says Amazon hasn’t resolved stormwater discharge problems, and accordingly, the consent application process has been put on hold."

Yet another Auckland development screwed by a lack of water services availability and so forced to plans that fail to manage the burden of the lack of infrastructure.

Its not that a single company or council cannot plan water services, build, repair or maintain them. In NZ the whole country fails at prioritizing essential infrastructure and human resources necessary for it. Even our architects get zero training so we have a repeated series of bad designs, and builds prone to leaks, flooding & community sewage overflows. New developments get stymied by the lack of essential water service availability & capacity and NZ ends up with a lack of business & housing infrastructure. Go team.

If only more kids learnt the lessons of babies first water toys and how pipes work. Then they might be able to predict as council & CCO managers that a blocked pipe will cause flooding and if you want more people living in an area with 10000 more homes you might want more capacity to extract the sewage made rather then wait for the eventual shit to hit the fan.

Looking at how Wellington and our govt dept heads manage things it probably would be a better investment to get them water toy lessons rather then language ones. Because water in and of itself has no mauri and any lifeforce in water; normally bacteria, viruses and disease needs to be filtered out to be safe to drink or for animals like humans and native species to interact with safely in the first place. Lessons learned over millennia of water systems design are still relevant rather then a watered down version of homeopathy & "natural" healing. Considering most advanced water systems design came from world wide developments it is not western, eastern, african or middle eastern but key lessons and innovations across all continents. The least notable developments were in the typical western American sense. So the assumption that more advanced water science and engineering is bad because it applies more technical skill then running sewage & filtered water through a marsh to restore a non existent feeling pandering to those without water systems skills or basic scientific knowledge seems very backward and harmful to all communities. The same mentally of "Brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes"

But then NZ is heading more into the lets not stop flooding and spend more on above ground look and feel (that then gets flooded) rather then properly invest in below ground services & the growth needed for the population & business reqs. We truly are on the worst timeline.

Microsoft will have "New Zealand - North" data centre up and running with essential Azure services soon, they are looking at end of the year. It made their map recently: https://datacenters.microsoft.com/globe/explore?info=region_newzealandn…

Whatever happened to that data centre in Albany that was going to have a surfing pool heated by waste heat from the centre?

Google supposed to be opening a GCP datacentre too, but that's gone all quite.  No mention of it on their roadmap, which goes out to Q1 2026.

https://datacenternews.asia/story/google-cloud-to-open-first-cloud-regi…

How much data can we actually use per person?.

Seems they are basing it on the rise in usage due to most entertainment been streamed rather than broadcast, but is that going to increase much more?