UK AI Minister Hits Out at OpenAI for Stargate Project Pause (2)

Britain’s AI minister dinged OpenAI for halting a major data center project in the UK and blaming the decision on the country’s energy costs and regulation.

“Since that time of commitment, nothing has changed in the energy-price experience with that site,” said Kanishka Narayan, UK minister for AI and online safety, at a Bloomberg event in London on Thursday. “Nothing has changed in the regulatory experience.”

Kanishka Narayan

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Narayan instead pointed to OpenAI’s broader attempts to streamline its investments after previously committing to spend more than $1 trillion on chips and data centers for artificial intelligence. “What has changed are ...