Anthropic has its eyes on Australia and a large slice of its electricity output

It was largely drafted before the internet, let alone the age of artificial intelligence," he said."If you can update our privacy law, that's probably the single biggest step you could take to protect Australians from their personal information being used against them in the age of AI."Mr Husic is deeply concerned by the government's sudden pivot on its approach to AI, and fears it could be detrimental."We've done a 180-degree turn However, that agreement is not binding.Sources close to the industry have told Four Corners on the condition of anonymity that senior Anthropic representatives disclosed to them the company had bold ambitions to invest in data centres that would use a large proportion of Australia's electricity output.They said Anthropic disclosed it wanted 5 gigawatts of new compute to help train its AI models by 2030, with a longer-term goal of 20 gigawatts