AFR's Street Talk column got their hands on Anthropic's computing demand tender to Australian data centre companies: 1.4 gigawatts of capacity, with 1 gigawatt by the end of 2027.
That's more than capacity of the entire Australia's data centre industry in 2025.
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Australian Financial ReviewAnthropic’s plans to buy 1.4GW of Aussie data centre capacityShould it go down this route, Infratil-owned CDC Centre is expected to come out with the lion’s share at about 500MW, sources said.
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@camwilson I can't see the article but tasmania is currently consuming 1.5 gigawatt including 300MW(?) aluminum smelter