Q+A: Inside the Aussie company shaping the next AI boom
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What is AI inferencing and why does it matter for Australia?
Welcome to Fear and Greed QA, where we ask and answer questions about business, investing, economics, politics, and more. I'm Sean Aylmer. The AI boom is creating extraordinary demand for computing power. But that comes with its own set of challenges. AI infrastructure needs electricity, space, and cooling. At a time when Australia is already grappling with constraints around power, water, electricity, etc., my guest today is David Keene. The co-founder and CEO of SCX.ai, which listed on the ASX last month, becoming Australia's first ASX-listed pure play AI infrastructure company. Rather than building new megadata centers, SCX installs specialized AI technology inside existing commercial data centers to extract more computing power while using fewer resources.
SCX.ai is a support
Great to
be here. Thank you
so
much for having me. You're going to have to dumb it down for me. All right, let's give it a go. What exactly does SCX.ai do?
Right. So we are building the sovereign AI inferencing capacity for Australia. Okay, what does that mean? Yeah. Well, everybody today that's listening to this is an AI user. I'm sure. You're all using it, people are using it every day. They're using it in their business, they're using it in their personal life. And when you use AI to perform work, our industry has created this name, inferencing. So inferencing is simply the word we use to describe. AI doing work. So if you write an email to your boss asking for a pay rise, you're an inferencer. Yeah. If you're asking it to look at a document and give you an opinion on a report, you're an inferencer. Okay. Just like Oprah said, we're all inferencers.
How does SCX.ai turn existing data centres into AI inferencing hubs?
You're an inferencer, you're an inferencer, and you're an inferencer. So it is reality. That word has caused a bit of challenge for people to come across. But the best way I think about it is if you compare it with the other word our industry uses, which is training. People have heard about this concept of AI training workload. Mm-hmm. So training is where you actually build one of those AI models. Yep. So again, you're creating with Chat GPT or you're creating a Claude. That's where you get a whole lot of data. And you put that together with an algorithm. Yep. And you put that in a big building with tens of thousands of GPUs in it. And you close the door and you come back three months later and you have an AI model.
Yeah.
But when you use the AI model to perform work, that's inferencing. So what does SCX do? So we are building the machines, the software, and the capability to allow Australians to perform AI work or inferencing here in Australia. So real-world examples. If you're an organization and you want to use AI to perform an analysis of something happening in your business, you want to automate a workflow. That's an inferencing load. So you would come to SCX and you would buy another lovely word, tokens. Right. So we'll talk about tokens. You'd come and buy tokens from SCX and you'd use those tokens in your application or AR agent to perform work. And SCX is one of the first organizations to do that here in Australia.
Because we believe Australians want to have their intelligence here. They want to control their intellectual property. They don't want it sent overseas or given to some hyperscaler. They want to know exactly where it is and how to use
it.
Why are tokens used as the unit of AI work and how can businesses buy them?
Okay, so I'm with you. So tokens are like a measurement or a unit. Where do they come from if they're not coming
from
Australia?
Isn't this a great conversation? Because I think a lot of people are using AI today and they're using it in some kind of a chat bot, right? But they're not sure what happens once they ask the question. I haven't thought about it. Right. That's what I'm worried about. So it's interesting because what's actually happening, folks, is you ask the chat bot to analyze It could be your x-ray, it could be anything you're putting in there, uh some personal information. And and by the way, we should talk about young people. Young people are using AI in ways that we can't imagine.
Yeah.
Um, you ask it a question, that information you've put in is sent s to a machine somewhere that is processing that information.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is AI inferencing and why does it matter for Australia?
0:05–1:43
2
How does SCX.ai turn existing data centres into AI inferencing hubs?
1:43–3:18
3
Why are tokens used as the unit of AI work and how can businesses buy them?
3:18–5:03
4
What privacy and sovereignty risks arise from sending AI data offshore?
5:03–7:07
5
How does SCX.ai’s RDU chip improve efficiency and reduce cooling needs?
7:07–8:42
6
What is SCX.ai’s investment thesis and how does it plan to grow?
8:42–10:45
7
How can Australian companies export AI tokens and compete globally?
10:45–12:25
8
What are the cost advantages of SCX.ai’s AI factories versus traditional data centres?
12:25–15:14
Speakers
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