From November 2024 report by Inference Magazine:
UK is going to stay behind in the AI race unless reforms are introduced making it easier to build datacentres and nuclear plants
Nuclear power results in 40% lower carbon emissions compared to renewables, and 27 times lower ‘projected deaths’
I would add to this that:
- There is literally no large-scale GPU, FPGA, ASIC or TPU manufacturing in the UK. You need these chips to run AI, play computer games or run other complex computations. All manufacturing is located in Taiwan, South Korea, China and Malaysia. Only US is doing something to establish their own large scale GPU manufacturing.