{"id":36962,"date":"2025-12-05T11:10:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T05:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=36962"},"modified":"2025-12-05T11:10:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T05:25:27","slug":"openai-strikes-deal-on-us4-6-bn-ai-centre-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/openai-strikes-deal-on-us4-6-bn-ai-centre-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI strikes deal on US$4.6 bn AI centre in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>SYDNEY, Dec 5:<\/strong> ChatGPT maker OpenAI and an Australian data centre operator have agreed to develop a multibillion-dollar AI centre in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>Brisbane-headquartered NextDC said Friday it signed a memorandum of understanding with OpenAI to develop an artificial intelligence campus and a &#8220;supercluster&#8221; of graphics processing units.<\/p>\n<p>The two firms will collaborate on planning, development and operation of the AI infrastructure partnership in western Sydney, NextDC said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>NextDC shares were up 4.1 percent in early afternoon trade.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s government said the Aus$7 billion (US$4.6 billion) development would create thousands of direct and indirect jobs during its construction, and ongoing technical, manufacturing, engineering and operational roles.<\/p>\n<p>The project would use long-term power purchase agreements for new renewable energy sources and &#8220;next generation&#8221; features not requiring drinking water for cooling, the government said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s more proof Australia has the talent, clean energy potential, trade partnerships, and policy settings needed to be one of the big winners when it comes to AI,&#8221; said Treasurer Jim Chalmers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Partnerships like these will help create good jobs, boost skills, and spread AI adoption across our economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY, Dec 5: ChatGPT maker OpenAI and an Australian data centre operator have agreed to develop a multibillion-dollar AI centre in Sydney. Brisbane-headquartered NextDC said Friday it signed a memorandum of understanding with OpenAI to develop an artificial intelligence campus and a &#8220;supercluster&#8221; of graphics processing units. The two firms will collaborate on planning, development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36965,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36962\/revisions\/36965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}