AI giant Anthropic has signed an agreement to operate in a proposed $32 billion mega AI centre on Queensland’s Western Downs, marking the company’s first major infrastructure investment in Australia.
Work on the 725-hectare site near Dalby is expected to begin before Christmas and employ 1500 in construction and eventually 1400 in the operational side of the business.
Dalby has a current population of about 12,800 and the project will provide a massive economic boost to the region with the influx of workers and contractors during construction and the permanent workforce.
Anthropic is at the forefront of the global AI revolution, which Elon Musk says will eventually make money irrelevant, supposedly because AI robots will produce more food, housing, transport, and energy than humans can consume, and goods will be super abundant.
Anthropic has experienced unprecedented growth from annual revenue of $500 million in late 2025 to more than $65 billion currently, fueled by massive enterprise adoption of its Claude AI models that will run out of the facility.
The Federal MP for Maranoa David Littleproud sees the project as a massive boost for the Western Downs economy and is confident that the massive amounts of water and electricity required for the site will be available, including from gas resources near Dalby and solar farms.
The facility will require the equivalent of the output of the Eraring Power Station, comparable to the energy use of roughly 1.5 million average Australian households.
It will be called the Western Downs Digital Park and aims to come online by 2027, with the broader build-out expected to take four to six years.
Unlike the unrealistic Federal Government proposals that aim to restrict new data centres strictly to 100% renewables, the Queensland state government will let the facility draw from a diverse local energy mix, including existing gas-fired power and the Kogan coal-fired power station.
Littleproud says Anthropic is expected to cover full grid-connection costs and go to market for long-term power agreements. Anthropic’s lease agreement at the site remains subject to final approval from the Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) and local council planning sign-offs.
Anthropic is heavily backed by tech giants. Amazon has committed to investing up to $33 billion, while Alphabet (Google) maintains a massive multi-billion-dollar stake and tech infrastructure partnership.
Premier David Crisafulli said the project was a direct result of his recent trade mission to the US. “This is a major win that will deliver more jobs, put more energy into Queensland’s grid and drive down power prices for Queenslanders,” he said.
“My meeting with Anthropic during the trade mission was to outline why Queensland was the place to invest, with energy security, locations to invest and a streamlined approvals process to get it right.”
Mr Crisafulli has promised data centre investment will drive down energy costs for consumers, and companies must add energy to the local grid.
The $32 billion complex is actually an infrastructure partnership where Anthropic is the primary anchor tenant.
While the physical facility is being built by Singapore-based developer Zerra DC, Anthropic’s massive capital backing and global user base for Claude are what make anchoring a multi-gigawatt mega-project financially viable.
Massive data banks and data centers masked as AI! So much for human intelligence run by global Intelligence. It’s going to take lots of quantum computers to collect and track all the data and information about everyone’s movements and activities. But 15 minute cities, 5G and cameras on every street corner should make it simpler.
I haven’t read a thing about the energy costs associated with it, have you? Massive water supply? Who misses out & who pays? Solar? Wind? C’mon you lot. It is the energy cost that keeps this crappolo going. There will always be the loser in this equation & it won’t be these buggers.
Perfect. Any AI worth its salt will have us doing the hard yakka for a handful of rice while it writes its own cheques to itself. Not to mention making sure we stay in our assigned enclosures in the name of Modern Zoo Keeping Best Practice. One click, and you’re done.
$32B to facilitate an algorithmically-guided cull of those who refuse to surrender their freedoms? Fantastic.
AI is being directed/programmed by demented, yet useful, idiots. They intend to use the tech to kill whoever they feel like and steal their stuff.
Politicians and legacy media cheering it on, in spite. Amazing.
I want nothing to do with it.
Did I read that right, 32,000,000,000 $ to build Lucifer’s den.
Good luck, whose paying for it?
In Sydney suburbia they’re building one next to a primary school.
Just think 20 years ago these gadgets didn’t exist. How many in hands now 2-3 billion or more?
Good business for some.
Line 2 streets back, to enter Apple Store. How much a new gadget
2-4 k each ?
Nobody talks anymore, heads down glued to screens, thinking we’re the greatest generation.
We’re not worthy to polish grandparents shoes. Skills and knowledge handed to the beast.
The gadget with bitten apple on back of all.
Coincidence or conincedence?
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Wonder why I don’t consider this “score” a win??? Sounds fishy – like maybe a data centre a comin’
They are building their smart city surveillance state and these ‘data centres’ are rumoured to also have crematoriums capable of disposing of hundreds of thousands of bodies per day. Agenda 2030…The Jew World Order. How else are they going to kill off billions?
“Anthropic has experienced unprecedented growth from annual revenue of $500 million in late 2025 to more than $65 billion currently”
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He, he… Smoke and sleep in our eyes. Think about it folks. A $1 investment yields a $130 return in less than a year. Somebody is pumping sht loads of money into the AI gigs worldwide. It even beats backing a 100:1 outsider at the Races.
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And they’re in a huge hurry it seems. Enough of a hurry to get plenty of bought and paid for grubbernments to turn a blind eye to any meaningful regulation.
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In a coupla years the Brin, Bezos, Jakob, Musk and Musk..ovitz, style Swissies from Egypt operators at the forefront of these Blackrock sized projects will have the entire world covered and in their hands.
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But we don’t need to worry cause it’s a great investment opportunity for the rest of us. We can eventually own nothing to worry about and be happy to be under 24 hour surveillance, control and AI care.
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Assuming AI doesn’t find us surplus to requirements or that our carbon emission footprint is not problematic to its agendas.
Well, well, well – Anthropic?
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This is the very same Anthropic that has just opened a second economic front against the Trump administration’s economic revolution. The two front war now involves the energy front and the AI front.
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Posting on Truth Social (September 14), Trump outed the latest Communist hoax along with the Climate Change hoax, rising sea levels, alien invasion and whatever garbage they roll out next. [quote]. – ‘I am the Hoax Buster, and I’m right now breaking another Hoax – That AI is going to take over, consume, and destroy the World, and that Robots will be marching into our Cities, and getting rid of us all! This is even wilder than the RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA HOAX, or the Global Warming Scam. Thank you for attention to this matter! President DONALD J TRUMP.’ [unquote]
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Anthropic’s AI themed offensive began last week on 8 September, when a certain nobody called Jacob Coxon, posted his resignation from Anthropic. Coxon tweeted from an account that previously had no followers, then lo and behold, he immediately had 165 million followers! – in two days, mmm? – now we’re not saying these are AI bots, – because who knows, maybe he did actually become popular with 1.6 million ladies overnight?
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But delving into Anthropic’s Jacob Coxon, it now turns out that he received a scholarship of $22,000 from a certain Dustin Muskovitz, whom along with his wife, fund an AI cult called ‘Effective Altruism.’ This was formerly an Oxford University philosophy club, dominating both Anthropic and Open AI, who are both seeking government regulation. Yes you read that correct, they both want to be controlled by central government: meaning they both want to hand power over to a Democrat government.
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This new ‘AI doomer cult’ is designed to destroy the Republican economic revolution and hand the AI system into the hands of the American Communist state.
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[quote]. – ‘The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. . . . This is not a marketing stunt.’ Jacob Coxon. [unquote]. Oh dear Jacob, so now we’re all going to die by robots whilst treading water with drowning polar bears?
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Right behind Coxon, spewing the same garbage is Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei and Evan Hubinger.
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In sum, – this opening of this second economic front coincides with the energy front and this week’s coordinated dumping of U.S. 10 Year Treasuries. Its all designed to destabilise the economy as America approaches the Midterms.
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When the AI turns everything into a shemozzle don’t worry because the RBA’s “PayID” subset of Swissy’s BIS system will be there to save the day regulating all payments and monitoring everything with GST added and all fines, levies, rates, duties, fees, tariffs, tolls and tithes deducted automatically, if you aren’t in the black interest added too only 18% with first month free.
Sydney will become Anthropic’s fourth office in Asia-Pacific, alongside Tokyo, Bengaluru, and Seoul. I hope the physical facility being built by Singapore-based developer Zerra DC, will employ Australians & bring wealth for Australian citizens. “Anthropic already works with some of Australia and New Zealand’s most innovative organizations—from enterprises like Canva, Quantium, and Commonwealth Bank of Australia, to startups pioneering new AI applications across diverse fields such as AgTech, physical AI, climate tech and more.”