Where AI Scales and the Grid Gets Cleaner: Australia's Opportunity - Afternoon Forum & Networking

​As artificial intelligence accelerates global demand for data centers and electricity, most markets face the same trade-off: new load competes with existing users, and someone pays for it — in price, in emissions, or in years spent waiting for a grid connection. ​The Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade), in partnership with Fortescue, is hosting an afternoon event on how Australia is turning its rapid renewables build-out and falling wholesale electricity prices into data center growth that arrives with new generation attached — adding to the energy transition rather than straining it. ​Because policy settings match large new loads with new supply, data center investment expands Australia's clean energy system rather than drawing on it. Alongside world-leading rooftop solar and fast-growing storage, that makes Australia a rare market where digital infrastructure and the energy transition are being built together — and where the ambition is to build and adopt AI, not simply host it. Fortescue's own build-out shows what that looks like in practice. ​Join industry leaders, investors, policymakers and technology experts for an afternoon of insights, discussion and networking as part of the Australian Government's program during New York Climate Week 2026.