{"id":915547,"date":"2026-10-04T07:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T07:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/915547\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T07:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T07:02:20","slug":"firmus-technologies-data-centres-in-tasmania-face-local-backlash-as-start-up-prepares-for-asx-float","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/915547\/","title":{"rendered":"Firmus Technologies\u2019 data centres in Tasmania face local backlash, as start-up prepares for ASX float"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated Oct 2, 2026 \u2013 11.55am, first published at 8.54am<\/p>\n<p>On Tasmania\u2019s northern coast, two yellow trucks and two blue excavators are digging into the earth on a hill overlooking the pale blue sea of Bass Strait, where views also stretch west for more than 100 kilometres to an extinct volcano, Table Cape.<\/p>\n<p>The site, where pine trees have also been freshly felled, is one of three places in Tasmania that Firmus, an artificial intelligence infrastructure company with customers such as Meta and OpenAI, has chosen to build controversial data centres.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Oct 2, 2026 \u2013 11.55am, first published at 8.54am On Tasmania\u2019s northern coast, two yellow trucks and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-915547","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\/915547","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=915547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}