Disrupted: Power, Water and AI

Panel exploring AI's massive energy and water demands with experts who shape policy and infrastructure at national scale.

You'll hear directly from people shaping Australia's data centre policy and infrastructure strategy, including the CEO of Data Centres Australia and economists steering the energy transition. The panel unpacks the concrete problem: data centres powering AI consume staggering amounts of electricity and water, yet most infrastructure was built for a fraction of today's demand. Rather than surface-level discussion, this explores the real trade-offs between speed, scale, and sustainability, and where actual innovation is solving problems versus creating new ones. If you're building in AI, investing in infrastructure, or trying to understand what sustainable scaling actually looks like, this cuts through the hype to the physical constraints that will shape the next decade.