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Sam Altman says Australia could be the data centre capital of the world, but do we want to be?

A dedicated show to the debate that’s raging here and across the world over data centres, the vast digital warehouses that process, store and manage the information required to run our websites, apps, our google searches our cloud services and crucially Artificial Intelligence.The backlash to these digital factories in the US has prompted AI companies to look elsewhere, like Australia where there are more than 90 new facilities in the pipeline. Michael Bommarito is president of the non-profit research group - Institute for the Advancement of Legal and Ethical AI and one of the leading…

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