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What are Britain’s AI growth zones and are the plans feasible or ‘complete bunk’?
UK NewsTechnology•July 6, 2026 at 8:00 AMNational

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

By Aisha Down•The Guardian - UK News

Lanarkshire datacentre run by renewables and creating thousands of jobs not achievable by 2030, Guardian investigation findsRevealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise‘It’s smoke and mirrors’: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI datacentreThe 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. Continue reading...

Lanarkshire datacentre run by renewables and creating thousands of jobs not achievable by 2030, Guardian investigation finds

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.

Continue reading...