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Data centres lead $136bn NSW investment rush

New South Wales has attracted $73 billion in proposed data centre and digital infrastructure investments through the Investment Delivery Authority’s first call for proposals. The sector topped the list...

Creaking state servers expose ‘crown jewels’ tech applications

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
NSW and Victorian government agencies are running swathes of unsupported legacy infrastructure, at times without formal risk assessment and planning despite the systems housing so called “crown jewels” applications....

Fund the funders move floated to close NSW ‘missing middle’

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
New investment models and a dedicated scaleup plan are needed to build up NSW’s industrial “missing middle”, according to the government’s innovation council, which found growing firms are underserved...

NSW puts data centres into $50bn fast lane

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The NSW government on Monday opened its new Investment Delivery Authority for expressions of interest, with data centres, clean energy and hotel project the first targets of a $50...

NSW govt AI, ‘COPS’ upgrade face audits

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The NSW government’s use of artificial intelligence is atop the state audit office’s work program this year, with whole of government policies for the technology and individual agency deployments...

NSW procurement reforms slow out of the blocks

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Changes to how NSW government agencies must use local suppliers or at least justify why not have hit early hurdles, while other procurement reforms promised more than two years...

NSW tightens tap for MVP Ventures grants

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
NSW’s popular startup grant program will open next month with much tighter rules, closer ties to the state’s industry policy and a dedicated stream for female-owned, Indigenous and regional...

NSW moves to outlaw sexually explicit deepfakes

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
New South Wales has become the latest state to move to prohibit the creation and distribution of sexually explicit deepfakes in response to the significant increase in image-based abuse....

Tech Central ‘must continue to grow’: Chanthivong

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
NSW innovation minister Anoulack Chanthivong says moving the popular Sydney Startup Hub to Tech Central will give startups new opportunities to scale ideas and build world-class research links. In...