Tag: Amazon

Data centre emissions surge as demand for services grow

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia’s largest data centre providers added more than 100,000 tonnes in emissions to the atmosphere last year, with new data showing the CO2 impact of the fast-growing market. Annual...

Govt rejects mobile obligation monopoly fears

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Senior government officials have doused fears that a new policy to extend universal service obligations to mobile phones would further entrench Elon Musk’s Starlink service in Australia. Appearing before...

Data centre sector to add $26b by 2030

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Australian data centre capacity is expected to double by 2030, attracting more than $26 billion in new investment in the process, according to a report that also calls for...

Rebuilding national competitive advantage

Posted on   |  by David McKeague
Australia has had a competitively thinning economy over the last 30 years. Australian corporates have reduced inhouse research and development – Telstra Research, Comalco Research, Wormald Research are just...

Social media giants are ‘vast surveillance’ operations

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Social media giants like Facebook and X are “vast surveillance” operations that collect, trade and hold troves of people’s data, the US consumer and competition watchdog has found after...

AWS to build govt’s $2bn Top Secret cloud

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Commonwealth’s most sensitive data will be stored across Amazon Web Services facilities and shared with Defence and national intelligence agencies through a new Top Secret Cloud from 2027....

Amazon’s Starlink rival gets Aussie carrier approval

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Amazon has been granted regulatory approval to operate its forthcoming internet satellite service Project Kuiper in Australia, as the company sets its sights on customer trials of the Starlink...