Australia’s geography offers opportunities to deploy data centres in locations that combine favorable climate, cooler ambient temperatures for efficient cooling.
Tasmania’s data centre policy to date is the Data Centre Action Strategy, an investment attraction document last updated in 2018 by the Office of the Coordinator-General.
If Anthropic is serious about building infrastructure at this scale in Australia, a rigorous options assessment against what these operators have already recognised about Victoria and South Australia should have preceded any tender process.
