Australian Carbon tax casts shadow over local data centre and cloud providers
The Australian Federal Government has announced a carbon tax of $23 per tonne effective from July 1 next year.
Designed to slash the nation’s carbon emissions by 159 million tonnes a year, the tax will apply to Australia’s top 500 polluters under a two-phase fixed and flexible scheme.
Under the first phase, carbon emitters will be able buy as many permits as required at the fixed price, which will rise 2.5 per cent each year until 2015 to $25.40.
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