TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY
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t the start of this year, UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced the AI Action Plan: a move to accelerate global AI leadership by fostering innovation, enabling pro-growth policies while minimising regulatory burdens on businesses and strengthening infrastructure.
Yet at the time, AI leaders showed concerns, including the AI skills gap and lack of infrastructure – or in other words, the UK trying to run before it can walk.
To coincide with London Tech Week in June, the UK announced a further investment: £ 2bn( US $ 2.7bn) into the UK’ s AI Infrastructure and skills growth. Without AI infrastructure, there is no AI. Without AI experts, it cannot be utilised properly.
To discuss the UK’ s future in the global AI race, the Prime Minister spoke with Nvidia’ s CEO Jensen Huang at London Tech Week. Their conversation centred on the investment programme designed to close what industry leaders describe as critical gaps in the UK’ s capacity to complete the ultimate goal: AI supremacy.
There is no AI without data centres The £ 2bn commitment builds on earlier government recognition of AI’ s strategic importance.
Data centres received classification as critical national infrastructure in September 2024, acknowledging their role as the backbone of AI systems.
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