{"id":561797,"date":"2026-03-24T20:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/561797\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T20:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:05:13","slug":"52-billion-investment-needed-to-become-regional-digital-hub-says-deloitte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/561797\/","title":{"rendered":"$52 billion investment needed to become regional digital hub, says Deloitte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia must secure $52 billion from private investors and government corporations to build data centres and supporting infrastructure if it wants to become a regional digital hub, new research from consultants Deloitte forecasts.<\/p>\n<p>The research, commissioned by US technology titan Google \u2013 which is seeking tax breaks for a potential <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/politics\/federal\/tax-worries-give-google-pause-on-20b-australia-data-centre-dream-20260312-p5o9r5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$20 billion artificial intelligence and data centre operation<\/a> in Australia \u2013 argues the nation needs to approve projects faster and develop clear regulations to secure investment.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia must secure $52 billion from private investors and government corporations to build data centres and supporting infrastructure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-561797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561797","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=561797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}