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Re: Introducing Stargate UK

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Post by walthamstow »

torginus wrote: post #24
tomwphillips wrote: post #3

This kind of science/tech investment is and has been catnip for UK government, regardless of political party, for years. They're out of ideas to stimulate growth, and AI is their hail Mary. No one involved seems to be able to explain why it will work.

From what I gather the UKians have a real chip on their shoulders from being left out of every tech revolution of the recent decades (chips, EVs and assorted green energy tech, rockets and now AI)

People of the UK are referred to collectively as Britons or Brits.

Re: Introducing Stargate UK

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Post by kybernetikos »

torginus wrote: post #24
tomwphillips wrote: post #3

This kind of science/tech investment is and has been catnip for UK government, regardless of political party, for years. They're out of ideas to stimulate growth, and AI is their hail Mary. No one involved seems to be able to explain why it will work.

From what I gather the UKians have a real chip on their shoulders from being left out of every tech revolution of the recent decades (chips, EVs and assorted green energy tech, rockets and now AI)

Are you saying this with an awareness that both DeepMind and ARM were founded in the UK?

Re: Introducing Stargate UK

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Post by simianwords »

testdelacc1 wrote: post #7
tomwphillips wrote: post #3

This kind of science/tech investment is and has been catnip for UK government, regardless of political party, for years. They're out of ideas to stimulate growth, and AI is their hail Mary. No one involved seems to be able to explain why it will work.

Ok let’s assume that AI will be a game changer. How does hosting it in the UK change anything? Just feels like something to brag about, but doesn’t have any impact. The UK is suffering from persistently expensive electricity ( https://grid.iamkate.com/ , see All-Time). How does hosting AI data centres help with that?

I don't know much about this but do these prices reflect electricity costs for a datacenter? Maybe the infra is different than for general public use.. maybe the last mile problems don't exist for data centers.

Re: Introducing Stargate UK

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Post by ycombigators »

testdelacc1 wrote: post #7
tomwphillips wrote: post #3

This kind of science/tech investment is and has been catnip for UK government, regardless of political party, for years. They're out of ideas to stimulate growth, and AI is their hail Mary. No one involved seems to be able to explain why it will work.

Ok let’s assume that AI will be a game changer. How does hosting it in the UK change anything? Just feels like something to brag about, but doesn’t have any impact. The UK is suffering from persistently expensive electricity ( https://grid.iamkate.com/ , see All-Time). How does hosting AI data centres help with that?

Royal Dutch Shell for the win!

Re: Introducing Stargate UK

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Post by robotswantdata »

Why not have this located in northern Scotland taking advantage of the surplus wind power being wasted due to north-south grid capacity, instead it’s likely going to be powered by gas generators.

In general the UK government talks growth but so far has delivered anti growth. Tech outsourcing seems to have really picked up since the NI changes.

Re: Introducing Stargate UK

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Post by ares623 »

simianwords wrote: post #28
OhioMan2943 wrote: post #19

The AI grift is so obvious now. The smart are abusing the dumb.

Can you explain how this is a grift?

- using the “stargate” name to make it sound related to the Stargate Project (which itself is vaporware)

- very non committal verbiage

- very light on details, but enough to entice new -marks- investors (“please bro we’re so close to AGI just $20B more”)

Re: Introducing Stargate UK

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Post by pfannkuchen »

Very disappointed OpenAI isn’t actually producing a generated tv show, and for that project choosing to make a UK version of the US tv show Stargate, a la the US version of the UK tv show the office. I feel like if tech companies were run by people with a sense of humor such things would sometimes happen.

Re: Introducing Stargate UK

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Post by [deleted] »

torginus wrote: post #24
tomwphillips wrote: post #3

This kind of science/tech investment is and has been catnip for UK government, regardless of political party, for years. They're out of ideas to stimulate growth, and AI is their hail Mary. No one involved seems to be able to explain why it will work.

From what I gather the UKians have a real chip on their shoulders from being left out of every tech revolution of the recent decades (chips, EVs and assorted green energy tech, rockets and now AI)

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Re: Introducing Stargate UK

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Post by argsnd »

kybernetikos wrote: post #32
torginus wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From what I gather the UKians have a real chip on their shoulders from being left out of every tech revolution of the recent decades (chips, EVs and assorted green energy tech, rockets and now AI)

Are you saying this with an awareness that both DeepMind and ARM were founded in the UK?

I am convinced that a lot of people have developed a completely distorted view of the UK by spending too much time on x.com where Elon Musk pushes his “come on, have a civil war already” bullshit and paints a picture of a country in its death throes.

Re: Introducing Stargate UK

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Post by shellac »

It sounds like this will include Teesworks, one of the dodgiest land deals of recent years. For a small investment two people essentially held the entire thing to ransom and secured options on an astonishing amount government money.

You can hear Richard Brooks summarise the situation (in 2023) here: https://www.private-eye.co.uk/podcast/76

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