AI Opportunities Action Plan: Government launches AI Energy Council

James Murray
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AI Opportunities Action Plan: Government launches AI Energy Council

Wide-ranging new strategy includes plans to boost investment in clean energy capacity and explore the use of small modular reactors to power AI data centres

The government has today announced it is to launch a new AI Energy Council as part of a sweeping new AI Opportunities Action Plan that aims to accelerate the roll out of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies...

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