The chief executive of Australia’s largest listed data centre group says simple changes to local copyright law to make it easier for artificial intelligence companies to train their systems would unlock billions of dollars of new investment in digital infrastructure from the likes of Microsoft and Google.
NextDC boss Craig Scroggie said that defining how tech giants like Google and OpenAI should pay to use text and information protected by copyright laws to train their AI models would add more fuel to the already red-hot data centre sector.
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