00:02Two AI data centres have already been given the green light in Tasmania,
00:06including this firm's technologies development on the outskirts of Launceston,
00:11and more have been proposed.
00:13But AI experts are warning if the state doesn't get the rules for data centres right,
00:18the community could miss out on potential economic benefits.
00:22It is quite possible that we could see these large investments
00:26and the building of huge data centres, and for us to really not have
00:30very much economic return in the future.
00:33The University of New South Wales AI Institute has made a submission
00:36to Tasmania's parliamentary inquiry into AI data centres.
00:41It says government should place binding community benefit conditions
00:44on data centre proponents, and they should be required to publicly report
00:49whether they're meeting those conditions.
00:52How many people are being employed as a direct result of the data centre investment?
00:56What access to that computing capacity is being made available to Australian companies?
01:04How much tax is actually being collected?
01:07Tasmania's peak body for the tech sector agrees public benefits must be prioritised.
01:13A new business coming to Tasmania ought to set targets for how many places it can create
01:21at TasTAFE, create at university, and how it's working in with local industry
01:27to make sure that jobs are being created in the tech sector.
01:31In its submission to the parliamentary inquiry,
01:33Firmus Technologies says it also supports mandatory reporting requirements,
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