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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent

Could Keir Starmer’s AI dream derail his own green energy promise?

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A datacentre in Oklahoma. Photograph: Google/Rex/Shutterstock

Keir Starmer this week launched a plan to bring a 20-fold increase in the amount of artificial intelligence (AI) computing power under public control by 2030.

But the race to build more electricity hungry AI datacentres over the next five years appears to work against another government target: to plug in enough low-carbon electricity projects to create a clean power system by the same date.

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