September 16, 2026 — 4:48pm

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Global artificial intelligence giant Anthropic has inked its first Australian data centre deal – a proposed $32 billion development in Queensland.

The site in the Western Downs, about 250 kilometres north-west of Brisbane, will come online in 2027 and be used by the company’s Claude model to answer customer requests, referred to as inference, as opposed to training models, according to a source familiar with the deal but not authorised to speak publicly.

Anthropic, led by chief executive Dario Amodei, will take…

Read the full article at SMH.COM.AU