Episode Details

Headlines: 

• Soldier Lachlan Muddle dies in parachuting accident
• Another hantavirus infection, as Aussies wait in Netherlands
• Chalmers gives a final pre-budget preview
• UK is heading towards a leadership spill
• Canvas hack resolves with hackers supposedly deleting data
• ... and Wordle is becoming a TV game show 

Deep Dive: 

Australia is a data centre destination: investors and developers love our stable infrastructure and the submarine internet cables that connect us to the rest of the world. That means that we have a lot of data centres, and more on the way. 

So: what exactly is a data centre? Who owns them? Who uses them? And where are they being built? In this episode of The Briefing, Natarsha Belling is joined by Dr Bronwyn Cumbo from the University of Technology Sydney. 

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