Govt considers levy on data centre revenue to fund R&D


James Riley
Editorial Director

The federal government is considering putting a levy on billions of dollars in annual data centre and hyperscaler revenue to help fund local research, support startups and build Australian AI capability.

The levy on data centres and AI is just one of many stakeholder proposals put forward to operationalise ‘Expectation 5’ of the data centre expectations announced by the Albanese government in March.

Expectation 5 called on providers of large-scale …

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