Updated Oct 2, 2026 – 11.55am, first published at 8.54am
On Tasmania’s northern coast, two yellow trucks and two blue excavators are digging into the earth on a hill overlooking the pale blue sea of Bass Strait, where views also stretch west for more than 100 kilometres to an extinct volcano, Table Cape.
The site, where pine trees have also been freshly felled, is one of three places in Tasmania that Firmus, an artificial intelligence infrastructure company with customers such as Meta and OpenAI, has chosen to build controversial data centres.
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