Australia's Energy Squeeze: Data Centre Hunger Meets Queensland's Coal Holdout as El Niño Looms

Queensland's Crisafulli LNP government has effectively engineered a policy environment designed to make renewable energy uninvestable, according to the Smart Energy Council. The state has repealed legislated renewable energy targets, abandoned firm coal closure dates, and committed to running state-owned coal stations to their technical lives — with a $1.8 billion upgrade spend to keep them running until at least 2046. Premier David Crisafulli even secured a national...