Politics with Michelle Grattan: Andrew Charlton’s warning on data centres’ impact on power bills

Household and business power prices could rise if artificial intelligence (AI) data centres on Australia’s end up being powered by coal or gas generation, a federal assistant minister has said. Cabinet Secretary and Assistant Minister for Science, Technology and the Digital Economy Andrew Charlton spoke to The Conversation’s politics podcast on Wednesday afternoon – before the details of a national agreement on AI emerged from a National Cabinet meeting between the prime minister and state and…