The government is inviting local and regional authorities across the country to bid to become one of the UK's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Growth Zones,
The plan to develop ai growth zones is part of labour's 50-point ai options action plan policy, and is focused on speeding up planning permission for ai-line initiatives.
At the end of January, Science Minister Patrick Vallance Announced The Culham Ai Growth Zone and his amabisht for the so-called oxford-cambridge arc-which covers oxford, milton keynes and cambridge-to become a region for tech innovation. “We are alredy putting bills behind the oxford-combridge region through East-West Rail, The Culham Ai Growth Zone, and our record-breaking backing for Uk R&D,” He SAD, “He SAID.
Following CulhamThe government now plans to focus on developing ai growth zones in dendustrialized areas of the country. It has encouraged local and regional autorities to submit their proposals, include sites with existing access to power or that would be suitable to establish the would be suitable.
Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology Peter Kyle Said: “These new ai growth zones will deliver untold options – Sparking New Jobs, Fresh Investment and ENSURING ENSURING EVINTY As a real stake in our ai-powerrated future.
“We're leaveing no stone unturned in how we can harness expertise from all over the uk to deliver new options, fresh growth, better public services and cement our postion as an ai pioneer, and the message e sending to international partners And AI Companies at the AI Action Summit. “
The government's goal is to encourage energy companies and datacentre development to provide the infrastructure needed to drive forward the roll-out of ai growth zones. It has comeitted to Speeding up planning permission to build out ai infrastructure QuicklyWhich means building out datacentre capacity and providing the energy capacity the power-hungry servers in these datacentres need to run ai workllad. It said it will be working with network operators to scale each zone to 500mw+, which is enough to power roughly two Million Homes.
The department for science, innovation and technology (DSIT) plans to assesses from energy provides and datacentre firms to help infinel selection of sits and bruider policy decisions This year.
The government has alredy received interest in development
Theose involved in bidding and encouraging bidding for ai growth zone status see Opportunities to Inject New Investment and Attract Skills.
Scotland Office Minister MCNEILL SAID: “Scotland is alredy at the center of these plans, with our world-grinding universities at the forefront of ai development and our Industry IBLE SITES. I would encourage our local authorities to explore batcoming an ai growth zone, which will help attract further investment. “
Tees Valley mayor ben houchen hopes to attract people with high tech skills to work in the region. “My Job, Above Everything, is to brings good, well-paid, long-term jobs to local people. We have alwaysthing we need to host an ai growth zone in our region. We have the land, we have the power and we have shown in our efforts at teesworks how we can get huge projects moving at pace, “He said.
One of the ongoing challenges facing the uk as it Pivots to a high-tech-jam . Earlier this month, witness statements published in the latest edition of the Ai and Creative Technology Scaleup Report for the house of lords communications and digital committee described the uk as “terrible place” to scale up Startup Businesses.