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<div>Many Tasmanians are now waking up to the threat of AI data centres and asking: “How can we stop these projects from going ahead?”
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<div>AI data centres consume enormous amounts of energy and water while creating relatively few permanent jobs. They also threaten to place heavy pressure on Tasmania’s farmland, communities and natural environment.
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<div>There is one key piece of infrastructure that helps make this grim future possible: Marinus Link.
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<div>Although often described as merely an undersea energy cable between Tasmania and Victoria, Marinus is more than just an energy project. It also includes fibre optic data cables — the kind of digital infrastructure a large new Artificial Intelligence industry would need. Marinus would also help unlock a mass rollout of wind farms and other energy projects across Tasmania, providing exactly the kind of abundant power and connectivity AI developers look for.
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<div>In other words, when Tasmanians ask, “How are these AI data centres going to be powered and connected?”, the answer leads directly to Project Marinus.
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<div>That is why AI data centres and Marinus Link should not be treated as separate issues. They are part of the same larger story.
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<div>If Marinus goes ahead, Tasmania risks being locked into a future where energy-intensive AI data centres, new wind farms, major transmission lines and powerful off-island corporate interests place ever-greater demands on our island state. Ordinary Tasmanians could be left paying the price through higher energy costs, while multi-billion-dollar Marinus-related debt puts pressure on essential services such as healthcare and education.
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<div>This GoFundMe has been created to help fund legal challenges against Project Marinus, which includes both the Marinus Link undersea cable and the North West Transmission Developments — the transmission infrastructure needed to support Marinus.
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<div>These cases are being fought by ordinary Tasmanians with very limited resources, against government-backed entities and major corporate interests.
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<div>Legal challenges are expensive. Funds are needed for lawyers’ fees, expert reports, hearing costs, appeal-related expenses and other urgent legal work. Without public support, these cases cannot continue properly.
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<div>At present, these legal challenges may be among the last real obstacles standing between Tasmania and the full rollout of Project Marinus.
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<div>Please donate if you can. Even a small contribution helps. If you cannot donate, please share this campaign widely.
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<div>Tasmania does not have to become a dumping ground for energy-intensive AI data centres and the infrastructure built to serve them.
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<div>Together, we can stop Marinus and save our beautiful island state.
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