{"id":764872,"date":"2026-06-28T02:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T02:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/764872\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T02:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T02:10:11","slug":"megaport-is-australian-sharemarkets-new-ai-boom-bust-barometer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/764872\/","title":{"rendered":"Megaport is Australian sharemarket\u2019s new AI boom-bust barometer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are we in the midst of an artificial intelligence bubble? It\u2019s a question investors are asking themselves as capital rushes from the hyperscalers to the chip makers to the memory stocks in a mad scramble to make sense of this rapidly evolving supply chain.<\/p>\n<p>On the ASX, one stock has emerged as the ultimate barometer of the AI boom, or if you side with the bears, an eventual bust: Megaport. The company, founded by serial entrepreneur Bevan Slattery, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p5cq31\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">experienced its fair share of ups and downs<\/a> since it floated in 2015 as a cloud infrastructure play.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Are we in the midst of an artificial intelligence bubble? It\u2019s a question investors are asking themselves as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-764872","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\/764872","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=764872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}