#data-centres

#data-centres

I'll go on record as to say I'm the best thing that's ever happened to him,

"This Tech Prosperity Deal marks a generational step change in our relationship with the US, shaping the futures of millions of people on both sides of the Atlantic," he said in a statement. "By teaming-up with world-class companies from both the UK and US, we're laying the foundations for a future where together we are world leaders in the technology of tomorrow, creating highly skilled jobs, putting more money in people's pockets and ensuring this partnership benefits every corner of the United Kingdom."

These companies need those infrastructure resources anyway, he said. They're building datacentres all over the world. Maybe they were pushed a bit forward just to meet the timetable with this week's state visit. But it's all one-way traffic. We're a kind of vassal state technologically, we really are. The moment our companies, our tech companies, start developing any scale or ambition, they have to go to California, because we don't have the growth capital here.

Aker has announced plans to build an AI 'factory' in the Arctic, leveraging abundant green energy and natural cooling for data centres.

The Commission for the Regulation of Utilities has decided to increase electricity network charges for households while reducing the charges for large users, such as data centres.