What the new data centre in Southland would look like. Photo: Supplied
A $3 billion data centre in Southland is being touted a game changer - delivering the most significant upgrade to New Zealand's digital infrastructure in a generation.
Datagrid has received resource consent for a 78,000 square-metre data centre, which will be built in Makarewa, north of Invercargill.
The development is descibed as an "AI factory", a data centre built to serve AI technology.
So what are the implications for something of this size, and should we believe the hype around it?
David Williams is Newsroom's South Island editor - and has been following this development for years - he joins Jesse to discuss.
