Labor's digital maven Andrew Charlton pitched OpenAI's top brass on Aussie data centres
The assistant minister for the digital economy's pitch comes amid growing nervousness in the media and creative sectors about the AI threat.
The Labor government's point man on the digital economy, Andrew Charlton, held talks with a senior OpenAI executive to pitch the idea of Australia as a data centre hub capable of hosting artificial intelligence platforms.
Charlton also met with C-Suite executives from Google, Anthropic, Nvidia, Amazon Web Services and Groq to discuss the data centre hub idea.
The visit comes as Tech Council of Australia chair Scott Farquhar's proposal to loosen copyright laws to encourage Big Tech giants to train their AI models in Australia has raised alarms within creative communities and the media.
Ahead of the economic roundtable in Canberra, the Productivity Commission also floated the idea that Australia's copyright laws may need to be updated for the artificial intelligence age.
