Anthropic taps a deep well of distrust as it eyes its Australian AI debut
Photo: CNN
The first rainfall in months splashes off the windshield as the mayor of Western Downs Andrew Smith drives to the site of a proposed AI data center behind a cattle feedlot in rural Queensland. It’s feeding time and 16,000 cattle are standing under shade sails waiting for a passing truck to shoot grain into their troughs. Agriculture is the biggest employer in this area, 260 kilometers (131 miles) west of Brisbane. But beneath the rich vertosol soils that sustain year-round crops lies a massive gas field that’s also turned the region into an energy hub. Now the AI data center industry has come knocking with a $22 billion proposal from Singaporean developer Zerra DC to build the Western Downs Digital Park, one of Australia’s largest AI data centers, with four…
Also reported by KRDO.
First reported by CNN. This page is a short excerpt; the full text is theirs.
