The proposed data centre is more than 10 times the size of the MCG. ‘Much severity’A petition calling for the data centre plan to be scrapped was launched by a young resident and has now attracted more than 1,000 signatures. The proposed data centre campus would therefore create less than 5 per cent of the number of jobs once supported by the former manufacturing site. Australian governments have been increasingly welcoming large data centre proposals to boost the economy and bring the associated infrastructure investments. In Victoria, this year’s budget revealed that the surge in data centre projects accounted for all of the growth in Victoria’s private commercial building approvals.