UK Plans £10 Billion Wales Data-Center Hub in AI Push

The UK plans to open a data center campus in south Wales, with developer Vantage Data Centers spending £10 billion ($13.1 billion) for facilities near a Microsoft Corp. site.

The new hub is part of the Labour government’s ongoing attempt to shore up Britain’s technology sector. The government also announced that it would allocate £250 million to buy computing resources for UK startups and researchers working on artificial intelligence. Another funding pot will subsidize the use of AI for drug discovery and treatments, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology said on Thursday.