AI company plan to use irrigation water disappears after ABC question
21-07-2026 21:12 via abc.net.au

AI company plan to use irrigation water disappears after ABC question

Data centre builder Firmus Technologies posts to its website a statement, since removed, indicating its intention to get some of its cooling water from the state-owned irrigation system, adding "but we do not want to highlight this yet, as they are yet to agree".
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