UK’s AI Growth Zone strategy — fit for purpose?
Joseph Purnell2025-05-01T06:58:00
In-depth: As the UK government opens up its AI Growth Zone initiative for formal applications, industry leaders debate the value, variously describing it as everything from ‘ridiculous’ to ‘ambitious’, and running the risk of ‘fetishising’ location and creating a ‘real mess’, as well as presenting opportunity for the UK on a global stage. Includes reporting from Connected North…
This article includes:
- Organisations: Connected North; Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT); Google; Greater Manchester Combined Authority; Kao Data; Knight Frank; Labour; Liverpool City Mayor; Liverpool City Region Combined Authority; Nscale; Northern Powerhouse Partnership; TechUK; The Northern Powerhouse Partnership.
- Geographic: England; Greater Manchester; Liverpool; Liverpool City Region; North West; Nordics; Oxfordshire; Slough; Stockport; UK; United Kingdom.
- People: Ash Evans; Ethan Thornton; Feryal Clark; Henri Murison; Karl Havard; Matt Clifford; Phil Swan; Spencer Lamb; Steve Rotheram.
- Themes: AI Growth Zones; AI Opportunities Action Plan; AI training centre; Copyright; Data centre; Energy pricing; Innovation; Investment; Net zero; Planning; Power infrastructure; Regulatory environment; Resilience; Security; Sovereign data; Special planning zones.
- Events: Connected North 2025.