The Business of Tech

Meet the government’s new tech boss

Reyhani wants New Zealand to retain more value when taxpayer-backed technologies succeed, whether through financial returns, research facilities, skilled people or new businesses. On artificial intelligence, he sees opportunities in applying existing models to New Zealand datasets, including agriculture and health, rather than competing head-on with the world's biggest model developers.

The New York Times

The Hidden Cost of America's Data Center Boom

There's a lot of pressure to bring this new energy online very quickly because states are currently competing for the opportunity to attract these data centers, even though the financial benefits of them for the state has not actually yet borne fruit.

The Business of Tech

Factories in retreat: inside NZ’s deindustrialisation crisis

While countries like Australia, Singapore, the UK and the US have long term coordinated manufacturing and industry four point zero strategies, New Zealand has shelved its industry transformation plans and still doesn't have a clear view of what kind of manufacturing base it wants in ten to twenty years.