Professor Ian Langford

Yeah, well, there's three dimensions, I think, around a first principles approach to these advanced technologies.

And when I say AI, I also mean the...

the system of systems around it to include everything from critical undersea infrastructure, which connects our data pipes to the world, all the way through to data centers, which gives us the opportunity to warehouse ours and other information, all the way through to incorporating a hyperscale technology such as a language model to inform future decision-making.

So it's the whole end-to-end system.

If I think about data centers, for example, the three elements which we have in abundance, we have good people,

We have plenty of geography to build and generate capacity to warehouse our own and other data across the region.

And the other thing we have is energy.

Now, our energy policy has all sorts of challenges, whether it be aged and critical infrastructure and its upgrades, or indeed the debate around nuclear power going forward, or the challenge of an energy transition that's focused much more on renewables.

But the reality is we have plenty of sunshine.

We also got plenty of influence in the international energy sector, which means when you combine geography and people and energy, we've got all the ingredients we need, particularly in the global south, to develop the kind of hub and spoke data center and AI technology centers of excellence that could lead the world.

I mean, if a country like Singapore could do it, which is different as a city state in the middle of Southeast Asia that can more easily connect into that system, that regional system.

We can absolutely do it.

When I think about the connection, for example, of undersea cables between Australia and Africa, which is the first global south point to point undersea cable of its type.

We have the opportunity to lead with respect to those sorts of initiatives and set ourselves up going forward.

Yeah.

Well, more than 99% of all of our data traffic moves on our critical undersea infrastructure.

So we have the Australia-Japan cable.

We have the Australia-Singapore-Europe cable, essentially.

And increasingly through things like SAPCO, which is the Sydney-Adelaide-Perth connection, which is then plugging into that connection that's running along the floor of the Indian Ocean, which will open up Southern Africa and provide redundancy to markets like Europe.

We're becoming a really important...