AI boomers, doomers, and why sovereignty and investment now matter more than hype Australia’s AI future won’t be decided by AI boomers or doomers, but by who owns the compute, sets the rules, and gets paid back for the infrastructure we build.
Australia’s data sovereignty ambitions will fail without research compute Australia’s lack of serious, at‑scale compute is not just a research productivity problem, it is a sovereignty problem as well. Our universities are trying to do world‑class work on infrastructure that simply does not match the ambitions in our national AI strategies or data sovereignty rhetoric.