{"id":23796,"date":"2026-07-04T16:37:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T14:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/openais-apparent-failure-to-visit-key-site-raises-questions-over-uk-investment\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T16:37:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T14:37:21","slug":"openais-apparent-failure-to-visit-key-site-raises-questions-over-uk-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/openais-apparent-failure-to-visit-key-site-raises-questions-over-uk-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s apparent failure to visit key site raises questions over UK investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: \u00a320bn of \u2018potential\u2019 \u00a330bn AI investment touted by UK ministers appears to have been hypothetical<\/p>\n<p>It was to be the biggest undertaking in Britain for OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Stargate UK \u2013 a multibillion-pound UK datacentre project \u2013<strong> <\/strong>would represent \u201ca major step forward in the US-UK technology partnership\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/apr\/09\/openai-pulls-out-of-landmark-31bn-uk-investment\">plans were paused in April<\/a>, with an OpenAI spokesperson citing concerns over regulation and high energy costs<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jul\/04\/openai-apparent-failure-visit-key-site-questions-stargate-uk-project\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8ce3e77293ca3b52c3b171d33c8dbf92a78f562f\/124_0_3413_2731\/master\/3413.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=37a741b0796fa9fba87324ff7bfd84c8\" title=\"OpenAI\u2019s apparent failure to visit key site raises questions over UK investment\" \/>Exclusive: \u00a320bn of \u2018potential\u2019 \u00a330bn AI investment touted by UK ministers appears to have been hypothetical<br \/>\nIt was to be the biggest undertaking in Britain for OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Stargate UK \u2013 a multibillion-pound UK datacentre project \u2013 would represent \u201ca major step forward in the US-UK technology partnership\u201d.<br \/>\nBut the plans were paused in April, with an OpenAI spokesperson citing concerns over regulation and high energy costs. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: \u00a320bn of \u2018potential\u2019 \u00a330bn AI investment touted by UK ministers appears to have been hypothetical It was to be the biggest undertaking in Britain for OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Stargate UK \u2013 a multibillion-pound UK datacentre project \u2013 would represent \u201ca major step forward in the US-UK technology partnership\u201d. But the plans were &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/openais-apparent-failure-to-visit-key-site-raises-questions-over-uk-investment\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OpenAI\u2019s apparent failure to visit key site raises questions over UK investment<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23797,"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\/23796"}],"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=23796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}