16 September 2026
Anthropic has signed its first Australian data centre lease, on a 2. 16GW Zerra DC campus west of Brisbane, Reuters reports.
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16 September 2026
Australia’s housing shortage, labor constraints and rapid-delivery needs are driving modular construction, automation and mass timber, despite approval and logistics barriers. Dublin, Sept. 15, 2026 ...
16 September 2026
Australia's new regulatory framework for solar inverters, batteries and other consumer energy resources will require suppliers to register products and prove compliance with a technical code. It also ...
16 September 2026
“It’s kind of an unveiled threat to have a nuclear sub going around without any weapons,” said Michael McCaul, who chairs the Friends of Australia caucus in the US Congress.
16 September 2026
So what? The winners aren’t spending the most on technology. They’re the ones who rebuilt how decisions get made. The rest are just collecting dashboards. The logistics industry has never spent more on digital tools.
16 September 2026
Prosecutors sought jail term for chief executive of Evett after insects not approved for consumption were on menu A South Korean court has fined the operator of one of Seoul’s most celebrated restaurants and its chief executive for serving a dessert topped with ants, an insect not approved for consumption under local food safety law. The operator of Evett, a two-Michelin-star restaurant in the affluent Gangnam district, was fined 10m won (£5,400) and its chief executive 15m won, Newsis reported .
16 September 2026
Germany has relaxed one of the more restrictive crewing requirements among major European maritime nations, allowing non-EU nationals to serve as masters and senior officers aboard German-flagged ships. An amendment to the country’s Safe Manning Ordinance now gives owners the option to use masters and officers from outside the EU and European Economic Area, provided …
16 September 2026
Shipping’s alternative fuel debate has acquired a useful new reference point with an important fuel body completing lifecycle assessments of LNG, ammonia and now methanol — and the clearest conclusion is that the production pathway can matter as much as the molecule itself. The Society for Gas as a Marine Fuel’s (SGMF) newly released methanol …
