Anthropic Seeks Up to 5GW of AI Data Centre Capacity in New South Wales
Claude chatbot maker Anthropic is seeking up to 5 gigawatts of AI data centre capacity in New South Wales, more than three times Australia's total current capacity, according to internal government emails. The company also issued a confidential tender for 1.4GW of capacity valued at over A$20 billio
Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, is seeking as much as 5 gigawatts of AI data centre capacity in New South Wales, more than three times Australia's total current capacity, according to internal government emails obtained by ABC News. The company separately sent Australian data centre builders a confidential tender for 1.4 gigawatts of capacity valued at more than A$20 billion ($14.4 billion), the Australian Financial Review reported in July. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei visited Australia in March, when the company signed a memorandum of understanding with the federal government.
In Japan, GLP Japan agreed to buy 18 hectares (44 acres) of land from JFE Steel in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, to build a refrigerated logistics hub. The Ogishima district project will comprise 11 buildings with 370,000 square metres (4 million square feet) of floor area. JFE Steel plans to hand over the site, part of a former steelworks, to GLP Japan by March 2028, with facilities partly operational by July 2030, and Kawasaki City has signed a cooperation agreement to support the project with new road and port links.
Japanese investors acquired a 168-key IHG-branded hotel in Osaka through crowdfunding platform CREAL, the company said. CREAL plans to retain the IHG franchise while shifting hotel operations to its own subsidiary, CREAL Hotels, an approach it also took at Holiday Inn & Suites Shin Osaka. Osaka's hotel market slowed in the first half of 2026 on a post-Expo lull and softer inbound demand tied to China-Japan travel dynamics, but CREAL said forward bookings are strengthening for the second half ahead of the city's 2030 integrated resort opening.
MA Financial has limited redemptions on its A$2.3 billion ($1.7 billion) secured property loan fund, as investors grow wary of the private credit sector's exposure to property development, the Australian Financial Review reported. The restriction was disclosed to investors in ASX-listed MA Credit Trust, a A$560 million fund with 20 percent exposure to the loan fund series, according to the AFR. Australian residential developer Bathla Group called in external administrators to restructure, citing a “perfect storm” of softening sales, rising costs and tax changes, Reuters reported. The privately owned builder had A$3.2 billion ($2.3 billion) in liabilities as of June 2025, according to regulatory filings.
Coliwoo Holdings reported an average portfolio occupancy rate of 93.7 percent for the June-ended quarter, with its Singapore portfolio stable at 3,568 rooms across 28 properties. Leased properties averaged 95 percent occupancy and managed properties reached 99.6 percent, while the owned segment stood at 80.8 percent, which Coliwoo attributed to the ramp-up of its 212-room Coliwoo Midtown property that opened in March and had reached close to 90 percent occupancy by July. Excluding that ramp-up effect, portfolio occupancy stood at 96 percent, and the group also commenced operations at its 380-room Coliwoo Resort Changi in July.
GS AI Infra, a unit of South Korea's GS Group, plans to break ground in November on a 2.4-gigawatt AI data centre in Donghae, on South Korea's east coast, Maeil Business reported. Construction will proceed in phases, starting with 1.2GW of capacity, and market analysts estimated the project cost at KRW 15 trillion ($10.8 billion), excluding GPU costs. The housing market slowdown is cutting inquiries at Australia's Ingenia Communities, which settled 573 homes in the year to June, up 10 percent from a year earlier, while the average price of homes it sold rose 1.5 percent to A$681,000 ($488,800).
