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  "id": 11939133,
  "title": "Rural Queenslanders have seen gas projects come and go – but a 725-hectare datacentre poses a whole new level of ‘stupidity’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/04/rural-queenslanders-have-seen-gas-projects-come-and-go-but-a-725",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-04T14:00:29.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Technology",
    "slug": "guardian-technology",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/05/queensland-data-centre-anthropic-western-downs-dalby"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Residents of Dalby may soon live beside a $31bn datacentre. The premier sees ‘opportunity’ for the state – but others fear AI’s global creep From the veranda on his bush block, Denver Kanowski has watched resources companies come and go from rural Queensland for 70 years. The home cost him $800, and lets him live how he likes, in nature. It’s also in the middle of a gasfield, not far from the…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}