SEEING RED is an irregular column on Fremantle Shipping News by Barry Healy*. In this piece, as Anthropic ponder an IPO to test out just how investors are feeling about AI, and data centres were an issue in the US Midterm elections, Barry considers how Australia should be approaching a beckoning AI future. In AI terminology, the milliseconds taken for a request to travel to a data centre and for a response to return is known as latency. In ordinary internet use a few milliseconds is barely noticeable. But in automated manufacturing, autonomous vehicles, financial trading and military operations, latency matters. The closer a data centre is to its users, the less…