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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Aisha Down

What are Britain’s AI growth zones and are the plans feasible or ‘complete bunk’?

Cables in a datacentre server room
There are five AI growth zones where the government intends to support huge new datacentres. Photograph: Sergio Azenha/Alamy

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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