"Data is becoming much more important - strategically and economically. How we govern and manage it, how we harvest it and exploit it responsibly for the population is really important, but when you look at what other governments are doing, they all have a sovereign posture towards data that is in the national interest - and we don't," he says.
"And why are they gathering all this data? One reason is that they need this 'gravity' of data, these payloads of data, to train artificial intelligence (AI), large language models, and the like. That is what the UK is missing out on - we do not have that gravity of data because so much of the storage and processing of our data is being outsourced to US hyperscalers and technology firms," he adds.
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