Australia data center news roundup

DatacenterDynamics (Nov 7 2011) Carbon Tax , Cloud Computing

1. Australia’s Federal Government said it will consider making data centers in the country exempt from its new carbon tax, passed as the Clean Energy Bill 2011 in October this year and due to come in place with Senate approval, if such a move is needed to keep data center activity onshore. In a report by The Australian last month, a spokesman for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said the government was monitoring the impact of the tax on the sector, and especially the impact the carbon tax could have on the burgeoning cloud computing market. He did say no exemption was being considered at the moment, but it was looking into reports that a number of companies had reconsidered plans to spend millions on new data centers, instead opting to move cloud operations offshore. (Read Full Article)

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