Episode

A tax on your data centre, how do we share the spoils of AI?

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The Radio National Hour
Published
Jun 10, 2026
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Summary

With AI tech companies looking to invest billions in data centres on Australian soil, and predictions that hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost to the technology, independent senator David Pocock is sounding the alarm and urging us not to let the profits escape offshore. Japanese authorities are on the hunt for a ‘very intelligent’ bear blamed for an attack on four people and then evading capture by escaping through a locked window. It comes amid thousands of reported sightings, as famished bears emerge from hibernation. Author and journalist Patrick Radden Keefe on cracking the infamous IRA code of silence