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Anthropic and OpenAI Are Quietly Shopping for Small Data Centers in Europe and the US
Both labs are hunting for 20-to-30 megawatt sites in the UK, the Nordics, and the US, a sharp turn from the gigawatt-scale megaprojects they announced just months ago.
Can picking the right degree protect your job from AI?
A UK expert on graduate employment says futureproofing a 45-year career is 'really quite hard', but face-to-face work still looks safer than most.
The Data Centre Story Just Went from Zero to Everywhere on AI2Day
In one week our coverage of AI's power and land problem jumped from one story to six, across three separate outlets. Here is what that shape actually tells us, and what would prove it real.
UK telecoms are too slow for the AI era, warn industry bosses
Planning hold-ups and patchy 5G coverage could leave Britain trailing the US, China and Europe in handling the flood of data that AI demands.
Sainsbury's pauses face-scanning AI after it wrongly accused a shopper of theft
Matt Arnold, 46, was ejected from a Sainsbury's store after its facial-recognition system misidentified him as a shoplifter. The supermarket has now paused the technology at that location while it investigates.
UK Children Are Reporting Explicit Deepfakes of Themselves at Record Rates
A service that helps young people remove intimate images from the internet says digitally faked content, including AI-generated nudity, is rising sharply. Experts warn the tools making it possible are only getting easier to find.
Living next to a data centre: what UK residents are actually experiencing
Across Britain, roughly 450 large data centres hum away on industrial estates and at the edges of towns. The people living alongside them are starting to speak up.
UK water industry says the country cannot supply enough water for its AI datacentre ambitions
Cooling a server farm drinks enormous amounts of water. Britain's water trade body says the government hasn't reckoned with that, and the AI growth plan has a fatal flaw baked in.
Clothes That Confuse Cameras: The Fashion Trend Born From Facial Recognition Fears
A new wave of designers is weaving patterns into jackets and tops built to trip up facial recognition software. Anti-surveillance fashion is here. Whether it works is a harder question.