By John Coyne
Publication Date: 2025-12-17 22:00:00
Washington’s launch of the Genesis mission has just redrawn the global technology map, and Australia needs to pay attention. It is no longer about limited defense or intelligence capabilities; It’s about who owns the computing power, energy, materials and scientific platforms that will determine economic sovereignty for the next 50 years. The opportunity is clear: Align the National AI Plan with this emerging US architecture and quickly create a Northern Territory computing zone that can anchor Australia’s digital future.
The Genesis mission, created by a Nov. 24 executive order, represents a profound shift in the way the United States plans to pursue technological competition with China. This is a national AI for Science program aimed at integrating the 17 U.S. national laboratories, their supercomputing clusters, massive scientific data sets, and robotics laboratories into a single, closed experimentation platform. The ambition is enormous: to double productivity…
