OpenAI pulls out of landmark £31B UK investment package (theguardian.com) AI

OpenAI has put on hold its planned “Stargate UK” project, part of a broader £31bn UK investment package announced last September, citing high energy costs and regulatory uncertainty. The deal was meant to help deliver UK “sovereign compute” by building data centres and potentially supplying thousands of Nvidia chips, but the Guardian reports that key infrastructure work had not begun as scheduled. OpenAI says it will proceed only when conditions improve, while critics point to broader delays and concerns over the UK’s datacentre economics.