26,000 Nvidia chips, 15 percent of Tasmania’s output: does this AI factory fit together?

“Tell me, Ollie, why Tasmania?” asks Jeremy Rockliff in a social media post as the camera pans over a construction site in Launceston last July.

Tasmania’s premier directs his question to Oliver Curtis, co-founder of Firmus, the Singapore-based company building a “$2 billion AI factory for Tassie,” as the video puts it!

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