Everyone's talking about making the UK an AI superpower, but the government can't even agree on how much power those shiny new data centers will suck up. Welcome to the latest display of tech policy theater.
Your weekend robot build? Suddenly way more expensive. Raspberry Pi's latest price surge, blamed on AI data center hunger, hits makers where it hurts — but a clever 3GB tweak hints at brighter days.
Scaffolding in Essex mud — that's the tombstone for OpenAI's £31bn Stargate UK pledge. High power bills and regs just killed another AI hype machine.
Your next AI-powered app might run cheaper and faster thanks to Amazon's massive Trainium bet with Anthropic. But is this resurgence real, or just datacenter hype?
Forget algorithms—what if party balloon gas decides the AI winners? Geopolitical chokepoints like helium and high-bandwidth memory are set to strangle datacenters.