All low-emissions power options, including nuclear, should be on the table to capture what the head of a data centre company views as an AI-fuelled data storage opportunity for Australia.

NEXTDC chief executive officer Craig Scroggie says artificial intelligence and cloud computing are driving massive demand for data centres and Australia is well-placed to be a regional heavyweight if it can solve the "energy trilemma".

"We need clean power, we need firm power, we need cheap power," he said at The Australian Energy Nation Forum.

"In order for a modern economy to thrive, we have to solve the energy trilemma."

The electricity-intensity of training and deploying AI models has been well-documented and was flagged as a challenge by the nation's independent climate body, the Climate Change A

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