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Will Australia be taken for a ride in the AI and data centre boom?
Key takeaways
- Outside of the US, Australia has emerged as the premier destination for data centre development.
- It's here, in this picturesque semi-rural expanse, wedged between Sydney's rapidly growing outer suburbs and the new international airport at Badgerys Creek, that the AI boom has landed in Australia, with a thud.
- An aerial shot of the site proposed for a data centre in Kemps Creek.
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Outside of the US, Australia has emerged as the premier destination for data centre development. (Supplied: Google)
Link copied Share Share article On the corner of Mamre Road and the yet-to-be-built South Link Road, in the western Sydney suburb of Kemps Creek, plans are afoot that could change the way the world works.
It's here, in this picturesque semi-rural expanse, wedged between Sydney's rapidly growing outer suburbs and the new international airport at Badgerys Creek, that the AI boom has landed in Australia, with a thud.
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