Even Meta cannot get all the AI compute it wants. Australian firms entered the new financial year with bigger AI budgets and shakier confidence.

Google implements compute-based usage limits on Gemini AI as API requests doubled in five months, squeezing access for Meta and other heavy users.

Google has struggled to keep up with demand for its cloud computing power, and Meta has grown increasingly reliant on Gemini for many of its needs. Now, Meta, along with a number…