Google is in talks with billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes’ SunCable for a Northern Territory data centre that would be the tech giant’s largest in the world.
He said much of the state’s vacant industrial land, a legacy of the manufacturing boom, already had good utility access, positioning Victoria well for the data centre industry.
AI investment boom is creating a virtuous cycle of massive capacity expansion, exponential traffic growth, and an urgent need for network upgrades that support ultra-high density and low-latency connections.
Hyperscalers like Microsoft and Google continue to commit tens of billions of dollars annually to this build-out, with forecasts suggesting their collective capital expenditure could exceed $360 billion in 2025.
An explosion at South Korea’s National Information Resources Service has disabled more than 600 government systems, raising concerns about digital resilience and service concentration in a single facility.
