Exclusive: £20bn of ‘potential’ £30bn AI investment touted by UK ministers appears to have been hypothetical
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 spokesperson citing concerns over regulation and high energy costs.
