Bipartisan AI inquiry urges Labor to invest in data centres - AFR

Politics Federal AI Print article Ronald Mizen Political correspondent Oct 12, 2026 – 10.05pm A bipartisan parliamentary inquiry into artificial intelligence has taken the unprecedented step of writing to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, urging the government to invest in data centres in the national interest and insisting that independent assessors have high-level access to model developers such as OpenAI and Anthropic to monitor their activities in real time. The committee has also given the Albanese government approval to press ahead with changes to copyright laws that will make it easier for major AI developers to train their models in local data centres. Loading... Save Log in or Subscribe to save article Share Copy link Copied Email LinkedIn Twitter Facebook Copy link Copied Share via... Gift this article Subscribe to gift this article Gift articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe now Already a subscriber? Login License article Read More AI Data centres OpenAI Anthropic Anthony Albanese Jonno Duniam Fetching latest articles