In the absence of meaningful activity from the Industry portfolio in coordinating and accelerating investment in AI infrastructure, Australia’s next federal government should consider moving responsibility for a national data centre strategy to Treasury.
With tens of billions of dollars of inward investment at stake, together with the speed at which the global AI and cloud economy is evolving, AI and data centre policy demands more urgent attention than the government has so far applied.
The implications for the energy grid of large-scale data centre deployment are profound, and the billions in data centre investment could be leveraged to help underwrite the financing of renewables infrastructure.
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