Yep - build the data centres in Melbourne Albo. That will work...

Yep - build the data centres in Melbourne Albo. That will work out just fine! Twiggy will ship in the gas.

This is all looking very good for TBN. Just need flow test data now.



Seattle | Anthony Albanese will use a stopover in the United States to hit out at Donald Trump’s tariff war as he joins the tech community for an announcement by Amazon that it will add a major boost to its $13.9 billion data centre network in Australia.

The prime minister landed in the west coast city of Seattle on Saturday AEST on his way to the Group of Seven leaders’ summit in Canada, where he plans to meet Trump, whose attendance has been confirmed.

Albanese will herald the decision by Amazon to increase its data centre spend in Australia by as much as 50 per cent as an example of close and deep cooperation up between two traditional allies.

“This sends a signal to the world, and it’s a powerful symbol of Australia and the United States cooperating to seize and shape a new era of prosperity,” Albanese will say of the data centre investment, when speaking at Amazon’s headquarters alongside the company’s web service chief executive officer, Matt Garman.

Amazon has also in recent days announced it would spend $USD20 billion ($31 billion) on two data centre complexes in Pennsylvania, one of which will be powered by a nearby nuclear power plant.

The trip to Seattle is Albanese’s fifth US visit since becoming prime minister in May 2022.

In a visit during November 2023, he announced Microsoft would spend another $5 billion in Australia to expand its Australian hyperscale cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure over the next two years and grow its local data centre footprint from 20 to 29 sites in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne.

Last year, the government said it would spend $2 billion to piggyback on the Amazon network to build and run top-secret data centres for the country’s spies and military.

The decade-long deal will let national security staff from agencies such as the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and Australian Secret Intelligence Service collaborate with their peers without touching the open internet where foreign powers could gain access.