Anthropic signed a A$32B lease for a 2.16GW Australian inference campus.

Its first Australian data centre agreement covers a site near Dalby in Queensland's Western Downs, built by Singaporean developer Zerra DC and targeted for 2027, subject to Foreign Investment Review Board and council approval. The campus is for inference serving Claude requests rather than training, and its power draw equals roughly 1.5 million Australian households. The inference-not-training detail is the one to note: this is capacity for demand that already exists.