Anthropic’s Australian ambitions could require an extraordinary amount of electricity.
The Claude maker expressed interest earlier this year in locating up to 5 gigawatts of AI data center capacity in New South Wales, according to internal government emails obtained by ABC News. The figure would be more than three times the combined capacity of all Australian data centers, putting the scale of the global AI infrastructure race into unusually stark terms.
For Australian IT leaders, the question extends well beyond whether Anthropic ultimately builds anything close to 5GW. The company’s interest illustrates how rapidly AI infrastructure demand…
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