Australia AI Investment: Tech Giants Advocate for Law Reforms to Boost Data Centres
Australian Financial Review
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- Date Published
- 26 Nov 2025
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- 2
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- 27 Nov 2025, 11:16 am
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Tech giants including Microsoft and Amazon will push for reforms to accelerate billions in AI investment as data centre spending spikes in Australia.
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The article highlights the push by major tech companies like Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and TikTok for legislative reforms in Australia to enhance investments in AI infrastructure. These reforms focus on energy, water, planning approval, and copyright laws to facilitate the exponential growth of data centers, essential for AI advancements. The increased investment in AI infrastructure in Australia mirrors a global trend, with significant implications for supporting groundbreaking technologies and their associated risks. While the article discusses substantial economic investment, the direct connection to AI safety and catastrophic risk reduction remains limited, focusing more on infrastructural expansion and legislative facilitation.
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TechnologyAIPrint articlePaul SmithandLuke KinsellaNov 27, 2025 – 8.00pmSaveLog inorSubscribeto save articleShareCopy linkCopiedEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookCopy linkCopiedShare via...Gift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?LoginTech giants including Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and TikTok will push for reforms to energy, water and planning approval and copyright laws to grease the wheels of billions of dollars of AI-linked investment in Australia, where spending on data centres doubled in the September quarter.The global boom in investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure, which propelled Nvidia to become the world’s most valuable company and spawned deals worth trillions of dollars, is hitting Australia in earnest, Australian Bureau of Statistics data released on Thursday shows.Loading...Paul Smithedits the technology coverage and has been a leading writer on the sector for 20 years. He covers big tech, business use of tech, the fast-growing Australian tech industry and start-ups, telecommunications and national innovation policy.Connect withPaulonTwitter.EmailPaulatpsmith@afr.comLuke Kinsellais a journalist based in The Australian Financial Review’s Sydney office. He was previously a policy analyst at Treasury.EmailLukeatluke.kinsella@nine.com.auSaveLog inorSubscribeto save articleShareCopy linkCopiedEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookCopy linkCopiedShare via...Gift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?LoginLicense articleFollow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.Find out moreRead MoreAIInfrastructureNEXTDCRobin KhudaMicrosoftAmazonCloudJim ChalmersTikTokUSANvidiaOpenAIScott FarquharMichelle RowlandGoogleProductivity CommissionFetching latest articlesSome cities are built for holidays – but these are made for livingMaria Shollenbarger5 hidden-gem jewellers that should be on your radarMax Allen’s top 20 drinks of the year (from $25 to $500)Christine Holgate on how to survive losing your jobPatrick DurkinWhy the two strikes rule on executive pay is so controversialCareer advice that actually works, from a $2.5b company CEOPorsche’s latest riff on the 911 is all about the little detailsTony DavisA chic rash shirt and a sell-out woven basket to elevate your beach days5 high-octane gifts for the motorhead in your lifeThe White Lotus effect: How kingly wealth can breed entitlement and isolationLucy Dean‘I’m a bit of a dictator’: Chemist Warehouse’s prescription for successYoung property entrepreneur gets set in green concrete start-up