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Former West Coast Stars Back Billion-Dollar AI Push

The West Australian

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Date Published
10 Apr 2026
Priority Score
1
Australian
Yes
Created
11 Apr 2026, 08:00 pm

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Former West Coast Eagles veterans Ben Cousins and Michael Gardiner take a punt on AI data centre darling Firmus Technologies.

Summary

This article details a financial investment by former AFL players into Firmus Technologies, an Australian firm specializing in liquid-cooled data centers for AI workloads. While the expansion of compute infrastructure is a prerequisite for scaling frontier AI models, the piece focuses primarily on business investment and local economic interest rather than safety protocols or catastrophic risk mitigation. It highlights the growing commercial appetite for AI infrastructure in Australia but offers no substantive analysis of governance or existential safety concerns.