James Kirby

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10,396 appearances 44 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 4d ago

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The Money Puzzle · How to invest in the data centre boom · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

I saw there's an a an application then from a Singaporean group to use the old Ford factory in Melbourne. matched

Which is enormous. matched

I mean it's several si times the size of the MCG. matched

But it did strike me that sitting out there of course and it had the infrastructure around it, it had the power coming into it. matched

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N a and then also you have things like fascinating, like firms, which we'll probably talk about in a while. matched

Getting a a approval to build a data center in Belle Bay, which most people of course would regard as heavy industry. matched

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The on the political side there is matched

In very broad terms. matched

There's political s support for any economic mini boom. matched

And data centers fit the bill there. matched

There is the sense that there will be a enormous investment and certainly in the initial phases, enormous construction, activity and employment, though not necessarily later on, when they these are built to be a bit more like toll roads really than LNG gas. matched

At least LNG gas continues to export for years and years, and that's actually good for the economy. matched

I'm just trying to put some political context in here and community unease. matched

Uh and a protest about the location of data centres matched

Can you tell us a little bit about that data centers like do they need to be matched

In cities, uh how does it work? matched

And that access to energy if it's as important as it sounds, then I uh we were just talking about the Belle Bay one. matched

They are what they are attracted to, of course, is that they can sell if you like themselves to global investors as clean matched

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