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Australian developer cancels Sydney data centre plan after opposition

Rank
Ran
25h
Updated
6d ago
Closed
Outlets
6
Regions
3
Countries
6
Languages
3

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CNA Singapore · English 28 Sept, 09:34 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in Dansk (1) · ไทย (1) · +1 language

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 6 after 25 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: CNA, 28 Sept, 09:34 UTC.
  2. Second country: Thailand, with Thairath.
  3. Second region: Americas, with Bloomberg.
  4. Last article: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

26 of 26 hours

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The 6 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

17%67%16%

  • Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%
  • Asia-Pacific 4 outlets · 4 countries · 67%
  • Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 16%

First movers

  1. CNA 28 Sept, 09:34 UTC
  2. Thairath +6h 27m
  3. Bloomberg +13h 14m
  4. South China Morning Post +15h 54m
  5. The Sydney Morning Herald +22h 1m

Last to join

  1. Berlingske 29 Sept, 10:58 UTC
  2. The Sydney Morning Herald 29 Sept, 07:35 UTC
  3. South China Morning Post 29 Sept, 01:28 UTC
  4. Bloomberg 28 Sept, 22:48 UTC
  5. Thairath 28 Sept, 16:01 UTC

The figures

Coverage
6 outlets in 6 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 6 outlets, 1 state-owned, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 1: United States. Asia-Pacific 4: Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand. Europe 1: Denmark. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Danish, English, Thai.
Timeline
Earliest article CNA, 28 Sept 2026, 09:34 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 09:50 UTC. Last seen 29 Sept 2026, 10:58 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Asia-Pacific, Australia. Topic Business & economy. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
28 Sept 2026 288 3.65 3 3 3 3 3.3

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How this was measured

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Started 28 Sept, 09:50 UTC · Updated 29 Sept, 10:58 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

  • Bloomberg United States 28 Sept, 22:48 UTC
    Goodman Pulls Sydney Data Center Plan After Community Outcry

Asia-Pacific 4 outlets

  • The Sydney Morning Herald Australia 29 Sept, 07:35 UTC
    Data centres should stop riding roughshod over locals
  • South China Morning Post Hong Kong 29 Sept, 01:28 UTC
    Australian firm drops US$842 million Sydney data centre plan after public fury
  • Thairath Thailand 28 Sept, 16:01 UTC
    ยกเลิกแล้ว แผนสร้างดาต้าเซ็นเตอร์ซิดนีย์ หลังโดนต่อต้านหนัก
  • CNA Singapore 28 Sept, 09:34 UTC
    Australian developer axes Sydney suburban data centre plan after local opposition

Europe 1 outlet

  • Berlingske Denmark 29 Sept, 10:58 UTC
    Endnu et stort datacenter skrottes efter protester
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