Major flaw risks smothering Sir Keir Starmer’s goal to make Britain a global superpower in AI
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IT’S hardly voters’ current priority — but we welcome Keir Starmer’s focus on AI and his determination that Britain become a global superpower in that field.
But, leaving aside what that would actually mean for ordinary people, one major flaw already risks smothering those ambitions at birth.
AI data centres are voracious energy consumers. Google and Amazon are building their OWN US nuclear plants.
We, though, pay more for our industrial electricity than anywhere in the world.
That is a fatal competitive disadvantage, sure to tempt even those tech firms keen on British AI expertise to set up elsewhere.
Now factor in the vast extra demand if we all switch to battery vehicles, as the Government wants. Plus a delusional Energy Secretary who thinks this gargantuan increase can mostly be generated by sunshine and wind.
Can the PM not see the problem?
Meanwhile, when he talks glibly of AI changing how we work, has he told the unions? They will block anything which threatens jobs or archaic practices their members have enjoyed for decades.
Is this union-funded Government really ready to force these luddites to embrace the future?
Debs’ legacy
THE Sun’s Dame Deborah James achieved so much in her short life.
Like the £16million her Bowelbabe campaign raised for Cancer Research.
But she will perhaps save even more lives with today’s victory, 2½ years after her death.
It was always her aim for the NHS to roll out bowel cancer screening far earlier than its standard 60 testing age.
Debs fronted our No Time 2 Lose campaign, which lobbied for the change alongside Bowel Cancer UK. And we are overjoyed to see the NHS complete plans for testing at 50.
We know, as her mum Heather says, she’d be grinning from ear to ear. And we know Debs would want us to say this:
When that kit arrives in the post, don’t ignore it . . . it could save your life.
Isles of silly
LABOUR will never convince voters it was right to strip winter fuel handouts from shivering pensioners and use them to pay Mauritius to take over British territory.
Each update about their “negotiations” towards this inexplicable £90million- a-year capitulation over the Chagos Islands costs the Government dear.
And the sneaky attempt to rush a deal through before Donald Trump can veto it could barely be better designed to sour relations between Britain and the US, since it weakens their security too.
Whatever Keir Starmer’s motive, it simply cannot be worth more than the price economically or politically.