Australia's AI Boom: $100B NVIDIA Push, Digital Duty of Care, and the Professor Who Fought OpenAI

NVIDIA has announced partnerships with eight Australian cloud providers to build up to 2 gigawatts of AI factory capacity by 2027 — a target that would more than double the nation's current 1.6GW data centre load in just over a year. The buildout, estimated to cost between A$70 billion and A$100+ billion, won't see NVIDIA constructing facilities directly. Instead, local operators including Firmus, which specialises in submerged...