{"id":25044,"date":"2026-09-22T12:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T10:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/22\/openais-george-osborne-says-datacentre-nimbys-holding-back-britain\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T12:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T10:37:19","slug":"openais-george-osborne-says-datacentre-nimbys-holding-back-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/22\/openais-george-osborne-says-datacentre-nimbys-holding-back-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s George Osborne says datacentre nimbys holding back Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former chancellor, now senior figure at OpenAI, says UK needs datacentres to maintain \u2018sovereignty\u2019 over AI tech<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2026\/sep\/22\/andy-burnham-donald-trump-un-general-assembly-uk-politics-latest-news\">UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Datacentre nimbys are holding Britain back, George Osborne has said in reaction to nationwide protests about the giant water- and energy-guzzling structures.<\/p>\n<p>The former Tory chancellor is now the head of AI for countries at OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT. His job is to represent the company to governments around the world and he also has a role in enabling the building of datacentres and other infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/sep\/22\/george-osborne-ai-datacentre-nimbys-holding-back-britain\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/19fed6911e40c4502ee3aad0f72477dd5125b6ed\/484_0_6097_4878\/master\/6097.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e25d19e26c3697d82ea73635aef74293\" title=\"OpenAI\u2019s George Osborne says datacentre nimbys holding back Britain\" \/>Former chancellor, now senior figure at OpenAI, says UK needs datacentres to maintain \u2018sovereignty\u2019 over AI tech<br \/>\nUK politics live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nDatacentre nimbys are holding Britain back, George Osborne has said in reaction to nationwide protests about the giant water- and energy-guzzling structures.<br \/>\nThe former Tory chancellor is now the head of AI for countries at OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT. His job is to represent the company to governments around the world and he also has a role in enabling the building of datacentres and other infrastructure. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former chancellor, now senior figure at OpenAI, says UK needs datacentres to maintain \u2018sovereignty\u2019 over AI tech UK politics live \u2013 latest updates Datacentre nimbys are holding Britain back, George Osborne has said in reaction to nationwide protests about the giant water- and energy-guzzling structures. The former Tory chancellor is now the head of AI &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/22\/openais-george-osborne-says-datacentre-nimbys-holding-back-britain\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OpenAI\u2019s George Osborne says datacentre nimbys holding back Britain<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25045,"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\/25044"}],"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=25044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}