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The AI Arms Race

Anne Alexander

Investigating the consequences of economic and military competition over AI technologies

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The draft National Policy Statement on Data Centres has just been published. I’ll be publishing more on the dodgy assumptions which underpin the government’s case for largely US tech firms to build vastly more and bigger data centre cluster...

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UK Budget passnotes: What Virginia's Energy Plan tells us about data centre clusters and the grid

I’m publishing a deep dive into the UK’s data centre sector with The Lead later this week. In the meantime, I’ll be sharing some thoughts reflecting on what the development of data centre clusters tells us about the problems coming down the...

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Charting Scotland’s data centre bubble

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Statistical typewriter or stochastic parrot?

Over the past week I’ve been teaching at the Cambridge Data School, an intensive digital methods training programme led by my colleague Eleanor Dare and organised by Cambridge Digital Humanities. The theme of the week is “Investigating AI I...

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How much of Slough's electricity is used by data centres? Government statistics just revealed the exact figure

Slough town centre: image credit alwye via Wikimedia Commons

Over the summer I’ve been looking at what concentrations of data centres do to local energy grids. As I’ve explained in this piece for The Ecologist, massive clusters of data cen...

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