Rachel Withers

Hello and welcome to Cut Through, Crikey's spin-free analysis of Australian news, politics and power.

I'm your temporary host, Rachel Withers, trying to fill the shoes of the wonderful Crystal Andrews.

And today we are doing one of our special Q&A episodes where we try to answer some of your questions about the unfortunate topic du jour, data centers.

Joining me to get to the bottom of this are two of Crikey's key contributors on the subject, climate writer and analyst, Ketan Joshi.

Yeah, good to be here.

Ben, we might just quickly start with you and talking about what this long read on data centres and the politics of data centres entails that you've published in Crikey this week.

Yeah, thanks, Rachel.

Yeah, so I do have an essay out in the website this week Looking really at the kind of long-form development of Labor's data center policy under the Albanese government, obviously it's also a state and territory issue, but I'm looking primarily at the way in which the Albanese government has attempted to regulate or perhaps not regulated this really, really interesting and fast-moving area of public policy.

Hello and welcome to Cut Through, Crikey's spin-free analysis of Australian news, politics and power.

I am your temporary host, Rachel Withers.

filling in for Crystal Andrews.

And today I'm joined by my wonderful friend and cracky media reporter, Dani Saeed, to dive into some of our favorite snoops of the past month.