Digging in
Firmus’ Curtis and Rosenfield find the neighbours harder than Nvidia.
Good morning.
Firmus is digging in against a soaring community backlash over its plans to build AI data centres in Tasmania and South Australia.
After spending much of the year courting the world’s largest investors ahead of a blockbuster IPO, co-founder Oliver Curtis is being increasingly pulled into less glamorous conversations. As Capital Brief’s Hugo Mathers reports, he and co-CEO Tim Rosenfield now find themselves on the ground fighting their corner in the rural towns of Brinkworth, South Australia and George Town, Tasmania, where community pressure is clearly mounting.
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