In 20 years time, you’ll be able to date annuncements accurately by the amount of slapping “AI” on everything.
Want to get a government minister who can barely turn on an ipad on board? Just add AI to the proposal.
I have an AI powered monorail idea if like to talk to you about…
I hear those things are awfully loud
We can always forbid it in the EU by adding “to protect the children” to the counter proposal.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The announcement was made at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has been meeting company bosses as part of a bid to “champion British excellence in tech”.
"This investment builds upon our Saint Giles and Kings Cross office developments, our multi-year research collaboration agreement with the University of Cambridge, and the Grace Hopper subsea cable that connects the UK with the United States and Spain.
"This new data centre will help meet growing demand for our AI and cloud services and bring crucial compute capacity to businesses across the UK while creating construction and technical jobs for the local community.
“Our country is no different and this major $1bn investment from Google is a huge vote of confidence in Britain as the largest tech economy in Europe, bringing with it good jobs and the infrastructure we need to support the industries of the future.”
Microsoft confirmed plans for a £2.5bn data centre in late November after overcoming UK regulatory hurdles in its £55bn takeover of Activision Blizzard.
Commenting on the latest deal, Ben Barringer, technology analyst at Quilter Cheviot, said there were signs the government’s message that the UK was open for business, particularly in the AI sphere, was getting through.
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Create jobs and growth of AI sounds like 2 conflicting interests. Maybe this data center creates a few jobs, but how many jobs will be lost to their AI advancement?
I don’t know why people are downvoting this. I was thinking the exact same thing.
It feels disingenuous to say an advantage of this project will be that it will “create jobs” when at this stage we cannot predict how many people will lose their jobs to AI.
Not to mention the fact that we don’t have good energy security in the UK and now we want to build a AI data centre, something that is extremely energy intensive?
I don’t see how this will benefit us common folk in UK, though I can see how it would benefit Google and (to make some cynical assumptions) whatever politicians they lined the pockets of.
