Tag: AI

Charles McHardie takes a deep dive at Services Australia

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Charles McHardie is among the best known faces among the Commonwealth’s technology leadership, responsible for the operations at Services Australia, one of the biggest IT shops in the country....

Investors press tech giants on data centre power, water use

Posted on   |  by Simon Jessop, Valerie Volcovici and Supantha Mukherjee
Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet’s Google have each recently abandoned construction of multibillion-dollar data centres over community opposition and now the companies are coming under shareholder pressure over the environmental...

Canberra strikes AI safety pact with Anthropic

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
US artificial intelligence giant Anthropic has entered an AI safety and research pact with the Albanese government, making Australia the latest in a small group of nations to formalise...

AI tsars are a box-tick without tiger teams, Dominello says

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Embedding AI tsars across federal government agencies risks creating another layer of bureaucracy without the ‘tiger teams’ to make them effective, former NSW digital minister Victor Dominello says. “It’s...

‘Race to the top’: NSW puts data centres to work on energy

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey says setting data centre principles are about creating a “race to the top”, where the power-hungry sector helps to address the state’s renewable energy challenges....