OpenAI pulls out of landmark £31B UK investment package

‘A Guardian investigation last month revealed many of these were “phantom investments” and a supercomputer scheduled to go live in 2026 was this March still a scaffolding yard in Essex. That supercomputer was to be built by Nscale, a UK firm that had never built a datacentre before but said it was aiming to deliver the project in 2027. Nscale was also to build key datacentres for Stargate UK.’

Guys… it’s an obvious scam. Has everyone lost their damn mind?

Anti-US sentiment had nothing to do with it. /i

“The government needs to wean itself off its bad habit of believing every dodgy claim it’s told by Big Tech – including OpenAI – starting with the idea they can cover the UK in power-guzzling datacentres without sending our efforts to combat climate change back to the stone age,” said Hegarty.