Global private investment fund Quinbrook Infrastructure has been given the green light to build a $2.5-billion battery and data-storage facility north of Brisbane
Queensland Labor, the state’s worst environmental vandals ever, levelling mountain tops and bulldozing thousands of acres of rainforest, hardwood forests and farmland to construct wind generators with a five year life cycle and a $2.5b, two hour, two megawatt battery
Construction will soon begin on stage one of Quinbrook’s ‘Supernode’ project at Brendale.
Stage one will be the construction of one of Queensland’s biggest Battery Energy Storage System (BESS).
The BESS will have a 250MW/2hr capacity and will enable the efficient storage of surplus solar and wind energy, aid the displacement of coal and other emissions-intensive generation sources.
Origin Energy has committed to the full capacity of stage one, under a recently completed agreement.
The ‘Supernode’ project is strategically located near the South Pine electricity substation.
This will be a significant advantage for the 2,000 Megawatt BESS.
Data storage to be added to the battery site. Whose data?
Following stage one, a data storage facility is planned to be added to the site.
This is just one of a number of projects coming to Queensland thanks to support from Queensland Labor’s strategic investments in both digital technology infrastructure and renewables.
“When we announced this Supernode almost two years ago, I said it showed what the future holds for Queensland’s digital and renewables economy and the creation of knowledge-based jobs,” Premier Stephen Miles said.
“Since then, we have made massive strides in making Queensland a clean energy powerhouse, anchored by our revolutionary Queensland Energy and Jobs Plan.
“The construction of stage one, here in Brendale, is more evidence that business believes in our vision.
“Renewable energy generation and storage like this will power us towards our 70% renewable energy targets.
“Responsible emissions targets are essential to jobs in our existing industries like mining, agriculture, and manufacturing and it’s the key to creating more jobs in the new industries of the future, here in the south east and right across Queensland.
“Additionally, our $15 million investment in Queensland’s first direct International Broadband Network Cable Landing Station, demonstrated to big business that the Sunshine state is the place to invest.
“We know we have the connection with the world to support new data centres, like the one that will be built here, creating high value jobs, that can be powered by renewable energy.”
The supernode facility, to be built on a 30ha site in Brendale, 20km north of Brisbane, will become a multi-tenanted campus for data storage and one of the largest green data-storage facilities in the southern hemisphere.
The site will connect directly to the adjacent South Pine substation at Brendale—the central node of the Queensland electricity network.
It will host third-party data-centre operations and be powered by wind and solar farms, backed up by a 2000mW-hour battery that will help stabilise the grid in the region around Moreton Bay, one of the leading regions for rooftop solar uptake.
The battery would have a maximum power output of 700 to 800mW.
The Premier described the venture as “one of the major new economy projects coming to Queensland”, driven by the state government’s investment in digital technology infrastructure and renewable energy.
That includes $15 million to support the Sunshine Coast’s new international undersea fibre-optic connection intended for uses such as efficient, large-scale data storage.
The 550km cable, which entered service in May, connects the Sunshine Coast to the 7000km Japan-Guam-Australia South submarine cable and allows Queensland businesses to connect with Asia and the US without going via the Sydney hub.
The proposed facility will intersect with the new international subsea data cable, directly connecting the Queensland capital to the global cloud for the first time.
All ready in time for national Digital ID to be issued to every citizen whose private details will be hooked into these vast data banks then made available to Japan and the rest of Asia via the submarine cable.
And a new Queensland Liberal administration at the end of the year will continue the madness.
my 18v makita lasts much longer than this fucking scam
What’s wrong with our Aussies these days? We’re being sold farts in jars and most Aussies let it slide without a whimper.
Stop it or cop it, Norms! Refuse to be abused and gaslit into stupidity and gutlessness.
Speak up and stand up for yourself. RESISTANCE is not a dirty word.
“Sucks to be a conquered nation.”
Not just conquered but also treacherously betrayed, treasoned and sold down the river.
Alexandra Wolfendale said – “Please tell me there is somebody who will stop this absolute waste of our taxpayers money.”
Well there’s the problem.
Everyone is waiting for SOMEONE ELSE to come save us.
Sucks to be a conquered nation.
Those coming up with this magnificent plan of storing all information and documentation in the same facility are the same brains trust that are trying to enforce the belief that China is any day going to attack us. What a wonderful idea have all technology and secrets placed in the one facility awaiting an invasion or a target for bombs and rockets.
Re: Don’t forget the monthly booster, wife and children too (you don’t want to go to heaven alone hey) – Pfizer’s vaccines are synthetic ModRNA DNA, made in a Laboratory and not mRNA which they told you, which natural, is what every living thing on this planet has, but if you believe in Heaven, let’s say the key for your Soul to get in there after you die.
So with your new ModRNA DNA and the US Supreme Court Law of 2013 which says that ModRNA is now synthetic and patented, so that the vaccine maker now owns your body like a GMO product, if not the Military who ordered and purchased those vaccines and distributed them into all of you – what key do you think the ModRNA DNA door opens for your Soul after you die? A heads up is always a good idea, just in case you have to make quick decisions after you die about unexpected changes you have no control over, about where you new Heaven is?
Sounds beautiful in Queensland, scratch that – it once sounded beautiful in Queensland, anyway ,the good news is that electric cars are tanking around the World, because nobody wants them, so guess there will be a lot more choice of electric cars in Queensland as well, soon, what with all of the electricity storage and generation plants there. Heard on the grapevine you can even put Solar Panels on the roof of your home and use your own electricity and not buy it off the Grid anymore – free electricity – for ever!!
Don’t forget the cost of the Snowy 2.0 boondoggle has now blown out to $12b….that’s 14b on those two lemons alone.
All I can say is OMG How far have they got with their ridiculous destruction of land and pretence that it’s “green” !
If it’s WRONG then a JURY will STOP it! Why is no one talking about JURIES? Is there anyone who knows our own history? TRIAL by JURY is DEMOCRACY – Use it or Lose it!
Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars
http://www.poorwiseman.net/Operations/quietops.html
THEORETICAL INTRODUCTION
Give me control over a nation’s currency,
and I care not who makes its laws.
Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1743 – 1812)
MR. ROTHSCHILD’S ENERGY DISCOVERY
What Mr. Rothschild had discovered was the basic principle of power, influence, and control over people as applied to economics. That principle is “when you assume the appearance of power, people soon give it to you.” Mr. Rothschild had discovered that currency or deposit loan accounts had the required appearance of power that could be used to induce people (inductance, with people corresponding to a magnetic field) into surrendering their real wealth in exchange for a promise of greater wealth (instead of real compensation). They would put up real collateral in exchange for a loan of promissory notes. Mr. Rothschild found that he could issue more notes than he had backing for, so long as he had someone’s stock of gold as a persuader to show his customers. Mr. Rothschild loaned his promissory notes to individual and to governments. These would create overconfidence. Then he would make money scarce, tighten control of the system, and collect the collateral through the obligation of contracts. The cycle was then repeated. These pressures could be used to ignite a war. Then he would control the availability of currency to determine who would win the war. That government which agreed to give him control of its economic system got his support. Collection of debts was guaranteed by economic aid to the enemy of the debtor. The profit derived from this economic methodology mad Mr. Rothschild all the more able to expand his wealth. He found that the public greed would allow currency to be printed by government order beyond the limits (inflation) of backing in precious metal or the production of goods and services.
They could have put all these solar panels on rooves but instead they had to put them on a paddock with big spaces between to take up the most possible land.
Because of the large gaps it looks like they can’t tilt in relation to sun angle and hailstorms.
The only reason for blatant incompetence can be that they are bribed / blackmailed and plan to lie their way out. A previous CairnsNews story covers the Medicare theft of rebates, by purported government incompetence. Why are they doing this. Simple, they are starting off small and seeing what they can get away with. We’ll get used to having our credit blanked out, as the Globalist corporations do with their fake money “points”. With the data sharing expect all your e-based assets to be stolen at some point, could be 2030 or anytime after, possibly even sooner, this includes e-titles to property, which may be explained by national bankruptcy which our governments are herding us towards.
Thought they were all for saving nature and the animals not destroying it? What a waste of tax payer money.
Hey, look, by all means, as I’ve been saying since Jan 2021: Trust the science! Everything was compressed to a bit smaller than an atom which exploded to become the universe we know. Always wear a mask! Don’t forget the monthly booster, wife and children too (you don’t want to go to heaven alone hey)! Get a weekly PCR test! Oh, and make your next car an EV!
Please tell me there is somebody who will stop this absolute waste of our taxpayers money. These treacherous idiots think they were given carte blanch to keep destroying our country and then giving $40m to Hamas. God help us.