Elliot Lawry

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4,557 appearances 48 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 21 Sep

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The Daily Aus · The billion-dollar fight over Aussie copyright · 5 Jul 2026 podcast

So it's like the promise of a deal with these big AI companies. voice-verified

Yes. voice-verified

So I'll run you through some of them. voice-verified

OpenAI, who's the company behind ChatGPT, they've committed $7 billion to stuff like developing data centers here in Australia, Amazon Web Services. voice-verified

They've committed $20 billion, Microsoft $25 billion. voice-verified

It's a lot of money over a very short period of time. voice-verified

And it's all to do with the fact that they want to have this local presence on the ground so they can own these operations. voice-verified

And we need someone to fund these facilities as well. voice-verified

Yeah, that is how the government is selling it. voice-verified

But it is also so that we can do it on our own terms. voice-verified

It's kind of being viewed that it's an inevitability that we will need these facilities and this infrastructure. voice-verified

And by us creating these deals early on, we're able to set these terms. voice-verified

And some of the things that have been put forward is that voice-verified

You know, for example, if you want to build and operate a data center here, you also have to invest in renewable energy to power that data center. voice-verified

So it's not taking away from the main grid that the regular Aussie uses. voice-verified

Or another example is they've also had to make promises around investing in local medical research. voice-verified

So, I mean, the catch kind of came to light last week. voice-verified

This was when independent Senator David Pocock, he's an ACT independent, voice-verified

He got up in question time and said that he'd had a government whistleblower come to him and tell him that there was a submission before the government from a big AI company that basically said they were willing to invest all this money if Australia weakened its copyright laws. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

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