Inside the 1,024-GPU AI factory keeping Australia’s data at home

Data sovereignty is the principle that digital information is subject to the laws and control of the country or entity where it is stored or processed. For investors, it matters because where data lives affects a company’s legal obligations, costs, ability to sell services across borders, and exposure to government access or restrictions — like owning a house that must follow the rules of the town it sits in.

GPUs are specialized computer chips originally designed to draw images on screens but now widely used to speed up tasks like artificial intelligence, scientific calculations, and data analysis. For investors, GPU demand is a signal about where computing power is being deployed —…