Australia should consider allowing foreign tech firms to build and operate data centres that would exist outside the reach of national laws, according to Atlassian co-founder and Tech Council chair Scott Farquhar.
The “digital embassies” could be the only way Australia secures a bigger chunk of the surging global data centre market, Mr Farquhar said, and would be worth reforming global conventions that currently prevent criminal and civil immunity for commercial activity.
Mr Farquhar put the idea forward in Canberra in July and unpacked detail for the first time on Tuesday in Sydney at the Tech Council of Australia’s annual summit.
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This is not a new radical plan. Singapore already started it’s work on the implementation of this and all top company CEOs of Singapore have been told about this so they can start planning for future engagement and adoption with their overseas vendors and partners. Seem Scott has just copy pasted it here because the name given by Singapore govt to this initiative is in fact Digital Embassies.
purely idiotic. Great for MNC data centre providers – hopeless for sovereign capability building in any meaningful way!