The government wants $25-35 billion in data centre investment, and it just gathered some of the country’s most powerful business leaders to make the case. Around 100 of the most powerful business leaders in New Zealand met last week on the Auckland waterfront at the offices of Invest New Zealand, the government agency responsible for attracting foreign investment into the country. They sipped wine, ate unidentifiably fancy hors d’oeuvres and wore suits that cost more than my car.