Datacentre developments are crowding out opportunities for housing and job-rich industries across Sydney, a New South Wales inquiry has heard, with one local council reporting a rise in blackouts linked to the industry’s expansion. Several Sydney councils, all facing an influx of datacentre developments, have raised concerns about the health, environmental and amenity impacts on their local communities in submissions to the state’s datacentre inquiry. Lane Cove Council, on Sydney’s northern shore, expressed “concern about brownouts and blackouts increasing in Lane Cove West since the expansion of datacentres”. The council said the noise generated by datacentres could also be “offensive
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