What are Britain’s AI growth zones and are the plans feasible or ‘complete bunk’?
The Guardian has examined government plans for AI growth zones, finding that a flagship Scottish AI datacentre project run by renewables and creating thousands of jobs is not achievable by 2030. A source described the plans as at best unclear and at worst “complete bunk”.
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The Guardian has examined government plans to build Britain’s AI infrastructure for the future, finding some of these to be, in the words of one source, at best unclear and at worst “complete bunk”.
The plans in question are for AI growth zones, which are supposed to be regions where the government supports companies to build massive AI datacentre complexes, of 500MW or greater. These could be bigger than any now operating in the UK.
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