How data centres and overseas holidays fuelled an RBA rate hike

ANALYSIS: Australia’s Reserve Bank responded to higher inflation with an interest rate rise, but there is an argument that the inflation spike was distorted and the RBA response premature.

WATCH: NBR senior journalist Lachlan Colquhoun speaks with Simon Shepherd.

Elon Musk’s latest plan is to use his SpaceX company to put data centres into space, powered by solar energy and cooled by the vacuum of the atmosphere.

Putting data centres in space, says Musk, will save on land usage on earth and also on power.

Up there in the exosphere, there won’t be so much

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Lachlan Colquhoun Wed, 11 Feb 2026

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