Microsoft’s A$25 billion investment in Australian AI and cloud infrastructure positions the country as a significant node in the Indo-Pacific’s trusted digital architecture. That creates a strategic opportunity – one Australia is well placed to …
If you were a tech giant that had set up data centres in the Middle East because of the cheap fossil-fuel power and permissive regulatory environment, you might now be looking wistfully at Australia. Right …
Modern defence capability no longer begins with submarines or fighters. It begins with infrastructure. Data centres, subsea fibre, sovereign cloud enclaves and globally distributed computing capacity are now essential to how militaries plan, move, fight …
Australia’s move to cloud-based technologies can’t afford to repeat the mistakes of the early adoption of the internet and social media. At first, those earlier developments were not seen as critical infrastructure or technology that …
Cloud infrastructure is now the backbone of everything from social services and emergency response to critical industry operations and defence. The shift has been fast, and often invisible to users. What began as a convenience …




