Anthropic wanted 'massive' data centre capacity in NSW, emails reveal | ABC NEWS

The ABC can reveal US tech giant Anthropic, the company behind popular AI chatbot Claude, wanted to meet with the NSW government in early 2026 to locate data centres.
Anthropic were interested in building up to 5 gigawatts of data centre capacity in the state, which would be more than three times the size of Australia's entire data centre infrastructure.
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