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The large, empty block a few streets from Michael McKenzie Hocking’s house has been vacant for years. On Thursday, a small herd of cows grazed on its long grass.

The only public sign that a $1.1 billion data centre could soon be built here was recent graffiti reading: “Data centres are cooked”. But that got taken down almost immediately.

“I don’t remember ever seeing a formal sign put up there saying that a data centre was proposed,” says McKenzie Hocking – despite the fact the huge data centre will, if approved, entirely transform the…

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