OpenAI's Ghost Town: A Tale of Phantom Investment and Failing Partnerships The UK government's enthusiasm for partnering with Silicon Valley giants on cutting edge AI research has been a recurring theme in recent years, but behind the pomp and circumstance lies a trail of broken promises and unfulfilled potential.
The latest casualty is Stargate UK, a multibillion pound datacentre project touted as a major milestone in US UK tech cooperation.
The proposed partnership between OpenAI and Nscale, a UK firm building a supercomputer in Essex, raised eyebrows when it emerged that neither party had actually visited the site at Cobalt Park, North Tyneside.