Will an 'abundance of clean power' be key to winning the global AI race?

Michael Holder
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Social Market Foundation calls for locational electricity pricing, planning reform, and major acceleration in nuclear development to enable rapid development of AI data centres

The UK risks falling behind in the global race to develop the next generation of digital technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) tools unless it rapidly delivers an abundance of clean electricity...

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