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Notes from the grid.

How commercial sites buy, sell, and trade power. Sovereignty through contracts, markets, and batteries for quality — not by leaving the wires.

Queensland

17 September 2026

Anthropic's Queensland power deal — and what it means if you still buy the grid

Anthropic leased a planned Western Downs data centre near Dalby. Peak talk is 2.16 GW. The grid story for commercial Australia that buys, sells, and trades power — not goes off-grid.