May 27, 2026 – 1.20pmOver the past two months, OpenAI’s cousin Anthropic has blitzed its way through Canberra.Co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei cut the ribbon on its Australian operations, shook hands with Anthony Albanese and Industry Minister Tim Ayers, and pinky-promised to plough its bounties into everything from Australian data centres and renewable energy to medical research at universities.Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones.Kanika Sood is a journalist based in Sydney who writes for the Street Talk column.Emma Rapaport is a co-editor of the Street Talk column. Prior to that, she was a markets reporter at The Australian Financial Review.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?
Anthropic auditions Australian data centre bosses for 500MW contract
Investors had been expecting the A-word to be dropped at CDC’s part-owned Infratil’s investor day on Tuesday.
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