Rural Queensland faces a $31B Anthropic datacentre, and locals aren't happy
nordicinst · x · 2026-10-04
A $31 billion, 725-hectare datacentre planned near Dalby in rural Queensland would power Anthropic's Claude and become Australia's largest datacentre, sitting about 15 minutes' drive from resident Denver Kanowski's home.
The community, scarred by the boom-and-bust of coal seam gas, is wary of environmental harm and another round of broken promises, while the state premier frames it as opportunity. The story captures the tension between AI's infrastructure buildout and rural communities.
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