UK Premier Announces Plan to Grow Domestic AI Capability Twentyfold by 2030
UK’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer has set his sights on making the UK a global superpower in the AI space. He wants the industry to grow and create rivals to OpenAI in a move calculated to significantly grow domestic computing power so that technologies vital to national security are innovated within the country. Of special interest to the government is the need to quickly expand AI data center capacity so that developers can have the needed infrastructure to rapidly deploy powerful foundational artificial intelligence models. It is noteworthy that a bold target of growing AI computing capacity by twentyfold has been…