If Australia is home to an AI gold rush, let’s not squander it. Let’s fjord a different path (opens in new tab)

Tech titans appear to be cosying up to Canberra with an eye to training data models here. An AI wealth fund could share in the profitsGet our , or The CEOs of AI titans Microsoft and Anthropic have been duchessing Canberra. The reason? They have bet the house that we are at the beginning of an AI gold rush and they have a big problem: they need to find secure places to train their massive models.Having exhausted the US’s public tolerance for data centres and the eye-popping amount of energy a...