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Terry osifo

I see the rapid growth of AI, cloud computing and digital services creating both opportunities and challenges. One of the biggest challenges will be ensuring that we have enough energy, infrastructure and skilled professionals to support the increasing number of data centres needed across the country.

I believe the UK should take three important steps. First, invest further in renewable energy and upgrade the national grid to meet future demand. Second, expand engineering and technology apprenticeships to develop the workforce needed for this growing sector. Third, encourage data centre development across different regions of the UK rather than concentrating it in a few areas.

If these steps are taken, the UK could attract more investment, create high-quality jobs, strengthen its digital economy and position itself as a global leader in technology and innovation.

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  • The main thing we need in the UK is sovereign cloud infrastructure that's not owned or run by American companies. I think European owners could be trusted, but personal details of UK citizens should not be controlled by American companies, as they can't be trusted because of US laws.

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  • The main thing we need in the UK is sovereign cloud infrastructure that's not owned or run by American companies. I think European owners could be trusted, but personal details of UK citizens should not be controlled by American companies, as they can't be trusted because of US laws.

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  • in reply to Simon Barker

    I'm inclined to agree, far too few people, even those advising the government, seem to be aware of the implications of the US cloud act - which as this article  summarises,  among a lot of far more innocuous stuff, also means all US based firms like Microsoft, Google and most of the rest of the 'big' office suites, can be obliged to hand over any data they have to US authorities, and not just that held on servers in the US and to do so without telling the organisations whose data is involved, so it may already be happening. At least as Microsoft lawyers are keen to point out,  such data extraction does need a suitably framed US court order first, which is something, but I can well imagine a situation, where it is not as  reassuring as it is intended to be.

    More generally I don't really understand the rush to store sensitive company and personal data on any hardware not under some local control, and certainly not hardware that is one US court order away from being totally out of the country.  
    If we must have off-site storage and make ourselves vulnerable to attacks on the network, at least keep it on a landmass and in the hands of organisations governed by the same jurisdiction.
    The AI thing just adds another layer of complexity.
    Mike.

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