International Agreements for Cross-border Access to Training Compute

Generally emphasises international cooperation and being 'the partner of choice' for the Indo-Pacific, including with respect to data centre infrastructure (Action 1, Action 9). Commitment to work towards collaborative arrangements with leading international and domestic AI companies (as evidenced by agreements with Anthropic and Microsoft) (Action 1, Action 2) but no specific details of international agreements with other countries for inbound or outbound cross-border access to training compute. Microsoft MOU contains commitment to 'explore' opportunities to collaborate on forecasting infrastructure needs for frontier AI development and deployment in Australia and the broader region, and on sustainable solutions that can establish Australia as a trusted regional hub, but no specific action or commitment. **Given the high public interest in fostering this capability, and its global scarcity, review of the government's current commitment is recommended. **