{"id":219185,"date":"2025-10-17T02:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/219185\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T02:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:37:08","slug":"sam-altmans-openai-courts-australia-in-its-771b-global-data-centre-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/219185\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman\u2019s OpenAI courts Australia in its $771b global data centre push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 17, 2025 \u2013 10.11am<\/p>\n<p>Gift this article<\/p>\n<p class=\"d6475070fa5e1d14-title\" data-testid=\"Modal-title\">Subscribe to gift this article<\/p>\n<p class=\"d6475070fa5e1d14-giftDescription d6475070fa5e1d14-noMaxWidth\" data-testid=\"Modal-description\">Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.<\/p>\n<p><a data-testid=\"Modal-subscribe-button\" href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.afr.com\/?promote_channel=HI_AGFT_GNL_GIFTCTA&amp;utm_source=ArticleGifting&amp;utm_medium=HouseInventory&amp;utm_campaign=General&amp;utm_content=GiftCTA\" class=\"d6475070fa5e1d14-subscribeButton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"d6475070fa5e1d14-subscribeSubtext\">Already a subscriber? Login<\/p>\n<p>One of OpenAI\u2019s top executives has arrived in Australia seeking data centre deals, with the start-up planning to splurge as much as $US500 billion ($770.9 billion) on infrastructure globally to support the ballooning growth in artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The AI company\u2019s head of global policy Chris Lehane will also meet with federal Industry Minister Tim Ayres and Assistant Science Minister Andrew Charlton to discuss legislative issues around access to renewable energy, data centre approvals and the use of copyrighted material to train AI systems.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 17, 2025 \u2013 10.11am Gift this article Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-219185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}