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Data centre growth depends on electricity market reform, not restrictions

New Zealand's electricity market needs reform to support data centre development, an opinion piece argues.

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An opinion piece argues that data centres are not themselves the problem for New Zealand's power system. Instead, the focus should be on reforming the electricity market to enable the growth that new data centres could drive for the economy.

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Data centres aren’t the problem, New Zealand’s electricity market is – Rod Snodgrass

OPINION: New data centres could drive growth, but power-market reform is urgent.

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