James Thomson
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2,279 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 12 Jun
James Thomson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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costs will go down and that'll come.
But you look at what's happening in AI infrastructure build-out, the costs of a data centre are soaring exponentially.
They're up to US $100 billion for the cost of a one gigawatt data centre.
They're not coming, costs aren't coming down, they're going up.
I think we're being fairly – I think Australians are being fairly circumspect on all that.
They're trying to weigh it all up.
But again –
alan this is the the thing you you walk away from a summit like this and it's like agentic ai is six months old six months yeah the speed at which this is moving and the that we're going from or does it work or or you know to okay what's the cost is so quick so the next twist and turns just around the corner
Yeah.
I mean, often, and you would have this too, Alan, you write about intergenerational inequality and you get a cohort of people, they're almost always male, saying, what intergenerational equality?
You know, this is a made-up idea.
People just need to...
Put their heads down and work harder.
That's what I did.
Yeah, yeah.
And as for the long-term social and economic ramifications for Australia, I mean, I think this is...
This is a real issue.
Demographic changes, the sort of K-shaped economy where the older asset-rich households have much greater spending power than younger, less asset-rich households is a real issue.
And I think the history and what we're seeing around the world says this doesn't end well.
polarized societies tend to elect populist leaders populist leaders tend to spend lots of money keeping inflation and interest rates higher and just pouring fuel on the same fire so this is why you know we do need to find ways to tackle this intergenerational inequality because otherwise you get a divided society that doesn't work doesn't work for anyone
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