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Anthropic has signed its first lease for data center capacity in Australia, at a site on a campus planned for farmland, about 250km west of Brisbane, according to Reuters, which cited two people familiar with the deal. The site on which the data center will be built belongs to a Singapore-based developer, likely Zerra DC, […]
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Nvidia has signed eight Australian data centre and cloud companies to build what it calls AI factory capacity, in an arrangement the chipmaker says could support up to two gigawatts of AI compute in Australia by 2027. The partners named in the announcement are Firmus, Sharon AI, IREN, Megaport, ResetData, CDC, NextDC and AirTrunk. IREN’s Bundey campus […]
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The White House has warned Australia over draft laws that would force social media platforms to offer users a feed not built by an algorithm, placing the bill in the same category as digital services taxes and describing penalties on American technology companies as a form of extortion. The Trump administration intends to raise the […]
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NextDC is raising A$1.1bn, about $796M, through convertible notes to fund the continued expansion of its Australian data centres. It is the third time the company has raised capital in a little over four months. The terms were reported by Reuters on Wednesday. The notes mature on 17 September 2031, with holders able to put […]
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An Australian company will build data centres in Malaysia and fill them with American chips. It will sell the output to an American company. Its co-chief executive calls this the moment Asia-Pacific stops consuming intelligence and starts producing it. Firmus announced the partnership from Sydney on Tuesday. OpenAI will contract dedicated compute from two Firmus […]
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Australia has published draft legislation that would require social media platforms to show users recurring prompts offering to turn the algorithmic feed off. The exposure draft of the Digital Duty of Care bill went out this week, Reuters reported, and carries penalties above A$100m for breaches. Plenty of jurisdictions have established that users should be able […]
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Australian police arrest two over TeamPCP hacks targeting Mercor, OpenAI, and others Read More »
Eight months into the world’s first under-16 social media ban, 26% of Australian children aged 13 to 15 are still using TikTok, one percentage point below where the figure sat before the law took effect. The data comes from the parental control software maker Qustodio, and it puts numbers to something already visible in the […]
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Australia will bar wholly AI-generated tracks from its official music charts from Monday. The song that prompted the rule was still sitting at number four on Tuesday. The Australian Recording Industry Association set the test in a statement. A track qualifies only if “humans wrote the song and performed the lead vocal and the primary […]
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The Australian government intends to impose national energy standards on AI data centres at this week’s National Cabinet meeting even though Queensland will not agree to them, a shift from the consensus approach that stalled when Queensland and the Northern Territory rejected most of the framework in July. The policy requires large facilities to buy power […]
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