Locals Assured They'll Only Need To Cut Showers To 3 Minutes And Stop Flushing Wees If Proposed Data Centre Goes Ahead

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The residents of Betoota's sprawling Plains district have today been given some reassuring news.

With a town hall at Betoota Council Chambers called over the proposed Data Centre for the edge of Betoota Plains, emotions were rather charged in the room.

While plenty around the area understand the necessity to move with the times and evolve our economy to something more than a real estate industry and dying resources sector, very valid concerns have been raised around the centre's impact upon their lives.

However, a spokesperson for the huge 560 million dollar project has confirmed that the potential impact won't be as bad as is reported overseas.

"Everyone needs to take a breath," said the spokesperson to a fired up room.

"I know people are seeing stories of town's facing a lack of drinking water and local ecosystems potentially being destroyed by these centres that need huge amounts of energy and water to function," he continued.

"But here in Betoota those things are plentiful."

"And it really won't have too much of an impact on concerned citizens."

"The worst impact will be that people will have to cut their showers to 3 minutes, which is actually plenty of time unless you are a toey teenager."

"Oh and people can only flush for number 2s."

"And water the garden once a week."

"But other than that, it won't have any impact on the town's quality of life."

The meeting erupted into chaos before Mayor Keith Carton informed the town the project was going ahead and refused to take questions about his construction firm's role in the project.

More to come.