A major council in Perth is moving toward making data centres a “prohibited use” under local planning rules, according to multiple Australian outlets. The move follows broader concerns about the growing strain on electricity supplies and water availability tied to the facilities.
The reports describe the proposal as difficult to reconcile with existing local planning objectives, but they do not indicate that data centres are being removed outright. Instead, the council’s action would target future developments by changing how the land-use category is treated in the Perth area. The coverage frames the issue within a wider national debate about infrastructure capacity and the impact of data-centre growth.
While all outlets focus on the same Perth council initiative and the “prohibited use” planning approach, they differ mainly in emphasis on the scale of resource pressures and the novelty of the step—presenting it as potentially the first such local-government prohibition in Australia. None of the sources provide details in the excerpts about timing, scope, or final approval outcomes.
