{"id":448184,"date":"2026-01-30T21:33:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/448184\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T21:33:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:33:36","slug":"can-a-data-centre-alley-in-slough-make-the-uk-an-ai-superpower-keir-starmer-thinks-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/448184\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a data centre alley in Slough make the UK an AI superpower? Keir Starmer thinks so."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 29, 2026 \u2013 5.00am<\/p>\n<p>If you are looking for Britain\u2019s information superhighway, all roads lead to Slough. The manufacturing hub on London\u2019s doorstep is where the dysfunctional paper factory from the comedy TV series The Office was based. But now it is more famous for being home to Europe\u2019s largest concentration of data centres.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it be everyday financial transactions or streaming a television show, those bits of code are likely to pass through this town next door to Windsor Castle, which has been dubbed Britain\u2019s \u201cdata centre alley\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 29, 2026 \u2013 5.00am If you are looking for Britain\u2019s information superhighway, all roads lead to Slough.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-448184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}