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Building AI Data Centres: What's in it for Australia and for AI safety?

7 July 2026 · 2:00 pm–2:25 pm · Refectory

Australia is being discussed as a place to build AI data centres — the infrastructure that trains and runs frontier AI. This talk explores what Australia could gain from hosting AI infrastructure, how it could contribute to the broader goal of AI going well, and some of the difficult questions along the way.

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Emily Grundy
Senior Policy Analyst, Good Ancestors
Emily drives AI policy research and advocacy at Good Ancestors. Her recent work has focused on AI-enabled biological risk, compute governance, and AI crisis management. Before Good Ancestors, Emily worked on MIT's AI Risk Repository — a comprehensive taxonomy of over 1,700 AI risks. She previously worked as a behavioural science researcher and consultant.

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