More than 130 years after a telegraph line was first laid between Indonesia and Broome’s now-iconic Cable Beach, the Kimberley region is emerging as an unlikely landing spot for Asia’s booming artificial intelligence sector.
Instead of telegraph lines, some of the world’s biggest hyperscalers are in discussions with Gingerah Energy about the potential to lay new subsea fibre optic cables to connect South-East Asia to a 1000 megawatt data centre on the western reaches of the Great Sandy Desert.
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