UK government plans to splurge billions on AI — we step through the tricky details

The only concretely good thing in here is that the government is going to use it as a cudgel to impose upgrading the UK electrical grid over the objections of pathetic nimbys who value their views of rolling green fields to things like, oo, people managing to heat their homes in winter without going into debt.

If it also means the government putting the boot into local authorities to force them to permit local economic development I’ll take that too.