{"id":722130,"date":"2026-06-08T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T02:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/722130\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T02:00:09","slug":"firmus-ai-factory-will-ai-data-centres-break-tasmanias-green-power-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/722130\/","title":{"rendered":"Firmus AI factory: Will AI data centres break Tasmania\u2019s green power grid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jun 8, 2026 \u2013 9.39am<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTell me Ollie, why Tasmania?\u201d asks Jeremy Rockliff in a social media post as the camera pans over a Launceston construction site last July.<\/p>\n<p>The Premier of Tasmania is directing his question to Oliver Curtis, the co-founder of Firmus, the Singapore-based company building what the video calls a \u201c$2 billion AI factory for Tassie!\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jun 8, 2026 \u2013 9.39am \u201cTell me Ollie, why Tasmania?\u201d asks Jeremy Rockliff in a social media post&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-722130","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\/722130","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=722130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}