{"id":334313,"date":"2025-12-08T05:59:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T05:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/334313\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T05:59:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T05:59:16","slug":"ai-data-centres-rescue-the-aussie-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/334313\/","title":{"rendered":"AI data centres rescue the Aussie economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the release of the Q3 ABS Household Spending data, which revealed a growth of just 0.2% in inflation-adjusted terms for the quarter, concerns began to mount that the third-quarter GDP figure could be weak.<\/p>\n<p>After being supported by solid quarterly growth in aggregate household spending in the prior three quarters, this concern was well grounded in fact.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/pXc5a-australia-household-spending-quarterly-growth-inflation-adjusted-nbsp-.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In per capita terms, it was quite a different story, with spending contracting on this metric for the quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/pMi9V-australia-household-spending-per-capita-quarterly-growth-inflation-adjusted.png\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the release of the Q3 ABS Household Spending data, which revealed a growth of just 0.2% in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-334313","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\/334313","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=334313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}