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OpenAI's Stargate UK datacentre project revealed as hypothetical

OpenAI's ambitious "Stargate UK" datacentre project, touted as a major step in US-UK tech cooperation, has been revealed to be largely hypothetical. The Guardian reports that OpenAI may not have visited key sites, and a significant portion of the projected investment appears to have been unsubstantiated. The project was reportedly paused in April due to regulatory and energy cost concerns, raising questions about the substance of the UK government's AI development claims. AI

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OpenAI's Stargate UK datacentre project revealed as hypothetical

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    "It was to be the biggest undertaking in Britain for OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Stargate UK – a multibillion-pound UK datacentre project – would repres

    "It was to be the biggest undertaking in Britain for OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Stargate UK – a multibillion-pound UK datacentre project – would represent “a major step forward in the US-UK technology partnership”. But the plans were paused in April, with an OpenAI spoke…