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Australian cities lead global push to green the data centre boom.

Australian cities lead global push to green the data centre boom

The AI boom and the power hungry data centres behind it could transform cities for good or otherwise.

  • Nick O'Malley

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Wall Street’s bull rally has at least been interrupted.

The AI spending frenzy is giving investors anxiety

While Wall Street bankers think there could be a 10 to 20 per cent market correction, one of the world’s most famous investors bets on something more traumatic.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Iren co-CEO Dan Roberts, who has founded and runs the company with his brother Will Roberts.

From the brink to billionaires: Sydney brothers land $14.8 billion Microsoft deal

Four years ago, the ASX rejected Iren when it tried to list. Now, it’s signed one of the largest contracts ever awarded to an Australian technology firm.​

  • David Swan
Data centres, not apartments, are being built just a stone’s throw away from metro stations such as Macquarie Park and North Ryde.

This site near a Sydney metro station could be home to hundreds. Instead, 50 people will work there

Minutes away from transport hubs is where a towering data centre – not apartments – could be built.

  • Cindy Yin
The AI craze has surprised Wall Street forecasters and spurred a race among strategists to keep up with a sharemarket rally.

America’s $6.8 trillion monster has a China problem

The world’s most valuable company again passed its Wall Street test, but there’s a big hole in its numbers.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Markets are getting increasingly jittery as they brace for a range of scenarios.

The multitrillion-dollar ‘bubble’ that could sink markets

Unimaginable sums of money are being sunk into AI by some of the world’s most valuable companies. Is this a re-run of the 1990s dot-com and tech bubbles?

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
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The decade of pipes and pumps for a growing city? Sydney’s success may depend on it.

Our water bills are too cheap – and we’ll soon pay dearly for that

A growing Sydney needs serious investment in water and wastewater pipes. Our bills have remained unsustainably flat – and if we don’t pay more now, we’ll get a much bigger bill later.

  • Adam Lovell
Best-performing super funds have been revealed.

‘Astonishing result’: How super funds are faring amid Trump tariff volatility

As the end of the financial year looms, analysts expect the third year in a row of positive returns from retirement savings funds.

  • Frances Howe
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman, at a press conference during the Prime Minister’s visit to the Amazon Spheres in Seattle, United States of America, on Saturday 14 June 2025. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Amazon boosts Australian investment to $20 billion to meet AI, data demands

The global tech giant will boost its investment in Australia to $20 billion by 2029 to meet surging demand for access to artificial intelligence, web storage and hosting, and more.

  • James Massola
Australian ambassador to the United States, Kevin Rudd, greets Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on his arrival in Seattle on Saturday.

Albanese-Trump meeting hopes rise as US leader confirms he’ll attend G7 summit

Despite global and local conflicts, Donald Trump says he is going to the summit, raising pressure on Anthony Albanese to secure a face-to-face meeting.

  • James Massola and Mike Foley

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