Tag: Data Centre

Australia’s AI opportunity lies in the ‘missing middle’

Posted on   |  by Suzanne Prescott
Australia risks capturing only a fraction of the economic value created by artificial intelligence unless its infrastructure investment is matched by a concerted effort to build local AI capability,...

Australia can set the standard for AI-era infrastructure

Posted on   |  by Robin Khuda
Listening to the Prime Minister’s address earlier this month, the significance of the moment was clear. Artificial intelligence and digital infrastructure are no longer being treated as narrow technology issues, but rather as national...

PM ignores sovereign AI at nation’s peril: Violi

Posted on   |  by James Riley
With the Prime Minister’s singular focus on attracting foreign investment in local data centre construction, local AI systems and software developers will be left wondering why they’re being ignored,...

New laws to set standards for data centre boom: PM

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Data centre operators will be forced to underwrite new power supply, slash their water use and face a new “common sense” test on whether facilities can be built under...

Energy ministers to decide data centre renewables rules

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Outspoken former Industry minister Ed Husic has called on state and federal Energy ministers to “get tough” on data centre operators to make sure additional renewable capacity is in...

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...