George Osborne says datacentre nimbys holding back Britain

Former UK chancellor George Osborne, now head of AI for countries at OpenAI, said protests against datacentres are blocking their construction in Britain. He warned the UK would lose "sovereignty" over AI technology to the US if it fails to allow datacentres to be built.

• Osborne is now head of AI for countries at OpenAI
• He dismissed opposition to datacentres as nimbyism
• He said the UK would lose sovereign control over AI infrastructure without new datacentres
• The UK government classifies AI datacentres as critical national infrastructure