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Amazon.com Inc. will invest A$20 billion ($13 billion) in Australia between 2025 and 2029 to expand its data center infrastructure, which Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called the largest-ever tech investment in the country by a global firm. The prime Minister welcomed Amazon Web Services’ investment to expand data center infrastructure in Sydney and Melbourne, calling it the largest-ever tech investment in the country by a global provider. He emphasized the project’s role in strengthening Australia’s AI capabilities, creating skilled jobs, and supporting high-performance computing infrastructure. The funds will boost cloud computing capacity and support Australia’s growing demand for artificial intelligence, Amazon said in a statement. The investment will center around its existing Sydney and Melbourne data centers. Albanese met with Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman on Saturday in Seattle ahead of the G-7 summit in Canada, where the deal was highlighted as a milestone in digital cooperation . Garman highlighted the company’s commitment to helping Australian organizations leverage generative AI. He said the investment will strengthen data infrastructure, increase renewable energy use, and support Australia’s ambition to become a global AI leader. Industry and Innovation Minister Tim Ayres welcomed the investment in an interview with Sky News Australia, calling it a “very significant” step for the nation’s digital infrastructure. “It’s in Australia’s interests to lean into the opportunity,” Ayres said. “We must be makers of the technology as well as takers.” As part of the expansion, Amazon will also build three new solar farms in Victoria and Queensland to power the growing infrastructure and support its clean energy goals . Amazon will commit to buying a combined capacity of more than 170 megawatts across these farms. Amazon operates eight solar and wind energy projects across New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria, which help power its Australian data centers and fulfillment facilities. Once all 11 of its planned renewable energy projects are online, they are expected to produce over 1.4 million megawatt-hours of clean energy annually—enough to power approximately 290,000 Australian homes each year. Between 2020 and 2022, Amazon invested an estimated A$467 million in renewable energy projects in Australia. In 2024, Amazon was Australia’s third-largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy and remains the largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy globally. As per a study by Accenture, Australian organizations migrating compute-heavy AI workloads to AWS can reduce carbon emissions by up to 94% compared with on-premises data centers. This is because of AWS’s infrastructure hardware, power, cooling, and carbon-free energy procurement efficiencies. The investment aligns with the Australian government’s goal to boost productivity and economic growth through AI-driven innovation. It will equip hundreds of thousands of Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers and partners with advanced cloud and AI tools, enabling large-scale innovation while ensuring compliance with local data residency and regulatory standards. The Department of Industry, Science and Resources estimates that AI and automation could add up to A$600 billion to Australia’s GDP annually by 2030. AWS’s presence in Australia began in 2012 with the opening of the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. This was followed by the opening of the AWS Asia Pacific in 2023, including the country’s first AWS Local Zones in Perth. In April 2024, AWS established Amazon Bedrock, AWS’s fully managed generative AI service, in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. Moreover, in July 2024, the Australian Government linked with AWS to provide a “Top Secret” AWS Cloud to deliver cloud innovation in national security and defense and enhance the nation’s defense and intelligence capabilities. Your crypto news deserves attention - KEY Difference Wire puts you on 250+ top sites

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Jason Mudrick, the Wall Street investor known for jumping into bankrupt brick-and-mortar stocks during the meme-trade chaos, is now backing flying taxis. The billionaire hedge fund manager said that after Donald Trump signed a new executive order supporting US aerospace, the idea of flying aircraft for cities suddenly “sort of became real.” Jason is now the top shareholder of Vertical Aerospace, a struggling British company that wants to launch an electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft—called the VX4—by 2028. The VX4 is designed to carry six people and fly up to 100 miles on a battery, which the company says could get someone from Manhattan to the Hamptons in under an hour. Jason took control of the firm late last year after forcing out founder Stephen Fitzpatrick and converting $130 million of debt into equity. The company had crashed to just $82 million in value after its post-SPAC price collapse. “Vertical wouldn’t be here if he hadn’t come up with the idea,” Jason said . “But at the end of the day, what the company needs now are not skills that he possesses.” Jason’s involvement started in 2021. After walking away from meme stock profits that brought in around $250 million, he wanted to refocus his fund on its roots: lending to distressed businesses. But after a quiet pitch from Vertical’s chairman, Dómhnal Slattery, Jason passed on buying equity. He wasn’t interested. Weeks later, Slattery returned with another offer: what about debt? That’s what got Jason moving. He had just been through online drama from Reddit traders after profiting from AMC and GameStop trades. People vandalized his firm’s Wikipedia page with insults. He ignored the noise and looked into flying taxis. The logic was simple—global cities are overcrowded, tunneling is expensive, and road expansions are almost impossible. As Jason put it, “You’ve got to go up.” Vertical was already far behind its US competitors. While companies like Archer, Beta Technologies, and Joby Aviation were pulling in investors like Amazon, Toyota, United Airlines, and Delta, Vertical was still raising money to survive. It secured $90 million in January but is going to need more soon. CEO Stuart Simpson confirmed the firm needs multiple new fundraising rounds to complete the $1 billion certification process for VX4. Joby wants to operate its own flying taxi service. Archer shared flight plans for New York and Los Angeles, and Beta already flew passengers in test flights while building 50 charging stations across 22 states. Meanwhile, Joby is working to launch a service in Dubai this year. Together, they’ve raised $1.4 billion in the last 12 months. Jason’s firm is playing catch-up. Vertical doesn’t want to be an Uber-in-the-sky. Jason’s model is to sell aircraft the way Airbus and Boeing do. Each sale then locks in contracts for servicing and battery replacements every year. That’s where the long-term money is. Simpson told Wall Street Journal that if all goes well, they’ll start delivering aircraft in 2028, assuming they meet strict European safety rules. Jason’s rivals say they’ll start flying passengers in the US in 2025 or 2026, but he called that “too optimistic.” He believes the VX4 will come a bit later but could stand out by being the only one to meet EU certification. Still, that’s not enough to guarantee success. “This is one of those bets that you make, and if it works, it’s one you’ll talk about for the next 20 years,” Jason told WSJ. KEY Difference Wire : the secret tool crypto projects use to get guaranteed media coverage