{"id":513136,"date":"2026-03-02T04:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T04:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/513136\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T04:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T04:03:08","slug":"four-steps-australia-must-take-to-secure-part-of-ai-data-centre-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/513136\/","title":{"rendered":"Four steps Australia must take to secure part of AI data centre boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can Australia grab its share of the global artificial intelligence moment? I\u2019ve just returned from two weeks in the United States <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/chanticleer\/airtrunk-s-robin-khuda-enters-his-third-act-finding-more-cash-20260228-p5o6bh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">meeting leaders of the world\u2019s major cloud and AI companies<\/a>. These hyperscalers are preparing to spend close to US$700\u202fbillion ($990 billion) in capital expenditure this year, yet the US market is now so constrained they\u2019re seeing Asia as the next wave of growth.<\/p>\n<p>In the last quarter alone, gigawatts of hyperscale demand were contracted to the region. To put that in context, a gigawatt costs roughly US$12 billion to US$14\u202fbillion to build, and that excludes land, GPUs and the renewable infrastructure needed to power it. In other words, it\u2019s a Snowy Hydro 2.0\u2013 sized investment, and that\u2019s every quarter, which is only going to grow!<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Can Australia grab its share of the global artificial intelligence moment? I\u2019ve just returned from two weeks in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-513136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513136","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=513136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}