{"id":22631,"date":"2026-04-09T16:37:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/openai-shelves-landmark-31bn-uk-investment-package\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T16:37:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:37:24","slug":"openai-shelves-landmark-31bn-uk-investment-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/openai-shelves-landmark-31bn-uk-investment-package\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI shelves landmark \u00a331bn UK investment package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence company cites high energy costs and regulation as reasons for putting Stargate project on hold<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/apr\/09\/oil-stocks-fall-fragile-ceasefire-middle-east-business-news\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>OpenAI has put on hold plans for a landmark project to strengthen the UK\u2019s AI capabilities, citing high energy costs and regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Stargate UK was a part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/sep\/17\/what-is-new-uk-us-tech-deal-ai-supercomputers-investment-economy\">landmark UK-US AI deal announced last September<\/a>, in which US companies appeared to commit \u00a331bn to the UK\u2019s tech sector, part of a larger series of investments intended to \u201cmainline AI\u201d into the British economy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/apr\/09\/openai-pulls-out-of-landmark-31bn-uk-investment\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c16ce335a8148cf4258e77c8ff12b6a94f5feb20\/578_0_3333_2667\/master\/3333.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=270a7d09f2d5ebf719d537ab2673fba3\" title=\"OpenAI shelves landmark \u00a331bn UK investment package\" \/>Artificial intelligence company cites high energy costs and regulation as reasons for putting Stargate project on hold<br \/>\nBusiness live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nOpenAI has put on hold plans for a landmark project to strengthen the UK\u2019s AI capabilities, citing high energy costs and regulation.<br \/>\nStargate UK was a part of the landmark UK-US AI deal announced last September, in which US companies appeared to commit \u00a331bn to the UK\u2019s tech sector, part of a larger series of investments intended to \u201cmainline AI\u201d into the British economy. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence company cites high energy costs and regulation as reasons for putting Stargate project on hold Business live \u2013 latest updates OpenAI has put on hold plans for a landmark project to strengthen the UK\u2019s AI capabilities, citing high energy costs and regulation. Stargate UK was a part of the landmark UK-US AI deal &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/openai-shelves-landmark-31bn-uk-investment-package\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OpenAI shelves landmark \u00a331bn UK investment package<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22631"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}