Sparks: Chris Bowen vows to override Queensland and NT to force renewables-powered AI datacentres

That a central magistrate should reach across vast distances to dictate the very fuel of local industry, bypassing the consent of the several states, establishes a precedent of consolidation that no free constitution can long survive.

Terrain dictates the flow of energy, and the commander who forces his will against the natural incline of the provinces creates a friction that will eventually consume more power than his machines can ever generate.

The ministers speak loudly of the future and the cooling of the earth, while in the dusty northern towns, men quietly watch the price of bread and wait for the lights to flicker.

We build faster brains out of silicon and sunbeams only to find they are employed in the same old business of complicating a life that was already too busy to be lived.

How long will the executive branch treat the statutory rights of our federated territories as mere obstacles to be swept aside by the decree of a single office?

The permit for the intelligence center was granted on the condition that it use only the wind, provided the wind submits a formal application to the ministry of overriding decrees.

Just as the bird must find the specific thermal to lift its weight, these thinking machines require a steady pulse of lightning that the shifting winds may not always be able to provide.

Fixed rules from a far-off captain don't mean much when the ground under your feet changes and the people actually doing the work are told to ignore the tools they already have.

Your proclamations of a cleaner future ring hollow when they are built upon the subjection of local will, proving that power concedes nothing without a demand, even when it wears the mask of progress.

They talk about these new brains in the sky like they're going to save the world, but I don't see them asking the folks whose land they're using if they want to be overridden.