{"id":168466,"date":"2025-09-29T16:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/168466\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:13:07","slug":"stockton-ai-data-centre-plans-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/168466\/","title":{"rendered":"Stockton AI data centre plans approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Agent Create Architecture said it was hoped the centre would &#8220;assist with regeneration of the heavy industry industrial area for Teesside and the immediate environment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McDonald said: &#8220;This is exactly the kind of investment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/p0m5lv6j\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">our community deserves<\/a> &#8211; not just jobs for today, but skills and opportunities for the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Stockton, Billingham and Norton have always been places of industry and innovation, and now we&#8217;re leading again in a cutting-edge sector that underpins the modern economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The announcement comes almost a fortnight after the government announced plans to create an AI growth zone in the North East, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c0r01y04kz9o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which includes two sites in Northumberland and Tyneside<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Teesworks in Redcar was not included in the initial announcement. The government said it was working through more than 200 proposals, including Redcar, to &#8220;identify the most promising&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Agent Create Architecture said it was hoped the centre would &#8220;assist with regeneration of the heavy industry industrial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-168466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}