Alan Kohler

And how does the growth rate in Australia compare with the rest of the world?

Are we sort of keeping up or falling behind or what?

Well, I'll get onto that in a moment.

I just wouldn't mind a brief primer for our listeners as to what's actually going on with compute.

Because, I mean, what we're talking about, I think, is the creation of tokens, which are the currency or the basic unit of artificial intelligence.

Are you able to simply tell us what's actually taking place

What does CPU and GPU stand for?

So do you have a simple way to talk about the growth rate of token production?

Because it's interesting because everyone's been going on about how many data centres are being built and it's the most incredible infrastructure build, you know, hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars.

And you're saying that the demand for what these things are doing is greater than even that amount of capital expenditure.

Right, so how much land will these things take up?

I mean, what are we talking about?

Taking up half of Victoria or half of New South Wales or something?

Now, in March, the federal government released a series of expectations of data centres and AI infrastructure developers.

And they say meeting these national expectations will be the foundation of their social licence to operate in Australia.

So what did you think of those?

So do you think your industry has already got a social licence, do you think?

So what do you do about water?

I mean, that has been a persistent criticism of data centers around the world.

And Australia is actually a dry country.