Post #4301929
2026-08-01 02:42 UTC
"Within that broader launch, the one substantive new policy announcement was a proposed one-year moratorium on new AI data centre consents."
#HenryOliver, 2026
https://thespinoff.co.nz/the-bulletin/27-07-2026/a-green-party-for-all-of-us
The Greens like to present themselves as radicals, but this is incrementalism writ large. To those of us closely following the disasterclasses of the #MOLE Training industry, this policy is about as ambitious as a 1 year moratorium on fossil fuel exploration, Or open field trials of GM.
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#AI #datacentres
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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz 2026-08-01 02:46
To be fair, the Opportunity party policy on this is even worse. They're totally drinking the kool-aid, and planning to give free public money to the #MOLE Training and DataFarming industries; "... we will introduce a new tax credit scheme. It will allow claiming back as a tax/credit up to 25% of the cost of rolling/out high-tech solutions such as AI and digital platforms." https://cdn.opportunity.org.nz/documents/policy/breakthrough-economy-policy-overview.pdf This is the kind of corporate welfare Labour regularly disappoints me with. #Opportunity (2/?)