Anthony Carbines
Victorian minister for AI, digital economy and economic development; also Leader of The House.
Anthony Carbines is Victoria’s minister for AI and the digital economy. On 22 September, he was named with the state’s new data-centre policy, which requires future projects to provide renewable power and storage.
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Anthony Carbines is a Victorian Labor minister and member of the Victorian legislative assembly for Ivanhoe. His ministerial work spans artificial intelligence, the digital economy, economic development, major events, medical research and racing. He also serves as Leader of The House.
His AI and digital economy portfolio places him in Victoria’s policy response to energy-hungry digital infrastructure. On 22 September, the state released a Sustainable Data Centre Action Plan requiring future data centres to provide their own renewable generation and storage, avoid drinking water for cooling and meet their own grid-connection costs.
Carbines represents the political link between Victoria’s technology policy and its wider economic-development agenda. The portfolio gives him a role in decisions where digital growth, electricity supply and planning rules meet.
