{"id":631562,"date":"2026-04-26T07:10:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/631562\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T07:10:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:10:27","slug":"government-plans-stricter-rules-for-airtrunk-nextdc-and-amazon-web-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/631562\/","title":{"rendered":"Government plans stricter rules for AirTrunk, NextDC and Amazon Web Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government is planning new data centre rules that will monitor the credentials of company directors and the nationality of investors, but operators have warned the proposal could slow them down in the race to raise billions of dollars of capital to win the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/chanticleer\/tech-giants-ready-to-fight-in-australia-s-100b-data-centre-war-20260420-p5zpai\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence infrastructure arms race.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mooted rules will impose stricter security requirements for big data centre players such as AirTrunk, CDC Data Centres and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/technology\/nextdc-raising-1-5b-to-meet-unprecedented-data-centre-spending-plan-20260420-p5zp9w\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NextDC<\/a>, and tech giants like Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft, which host sensitive government information.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>correction \u2014<\/p>\n<p>This article has been updated to clarify that DigiCo went through a rigorous review after its acquisition of the data centre in Ultimo and was given the highest level of security certification under the government\u2019s current framework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government is planning new data centre rules that will monitor the credentials of company directors and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-631562","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\/631562","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=631562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}