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Lucinda Garbutt-Young

BIZARRE: Red hot with anger city residents face ai inquiry - You Need To See This

Calls are growing for a national framework to address the location and impacts of data centres. (Jono Searle/AAP PHOTOS)

Local councils have called for tougher national data centre regulations, saying they are powerless against the whims of billion-dollar companies planning to build on prime land.

Data centre companies AirTrunk and Goodman fronted a Senate committee in Sydney on Tuesday, saying they were working closely with governments to reduce their carbon footprints and earn their social licence.

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