NewsWrap: Friday 21 August 2026 – Andrew Charlton on leveraging data centres to build AI


James Riley
Editorial Director

In a speech that put meat on the bones of government ambitions for Australia to become AI makers rather than takers, Assistant Minister for the Digital Economy Dr Andrew Charlton last week outlined how investment in data centres can be leveraged to capture more of the value on offer in the AI stack. Justin Hendry takes us through it.

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