{"id":396497,"date":"2026-01-29T07:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T07:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/396497\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T07:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T07:52:07","slug":"lanarkshire-to-become-one-of-the-worlds-most-advanced-ai-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/396497\/","title":{"rendered":"Lanarkshire to become ‘one of the world’s most advanced AI sites’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year the government announced an AI Opportunities Action Plan which included establishing AI growth zones “to facilitate the accelerated build out of AI data centres”.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the development would create jobs, directly helping families with the cost of living.<\/p>\n

“Getting on in life should not mean travelling miles from your community for work while struggling to pay the bills at home,” he said.<\/p>\n

“By bringing billions of pounds of investment into Lanarkshire, we are creating good, well paid jobs and funding support that directly helps families with the cost of living.”<\/p>\n

Scotland Office Minister Kirsty McNeill said the news marked the next chapter for North Lanarkshire – an area known for its coal and steel manufacturing heritage<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Danny Quinn, the managing director of DataVita, said the move would “go beyond physical buildings” and that the benefits would remain local.<\/p>\n

He said: “We’re creating innovation parks, new energy infrastructure, and attracting inward investment from some of the world’s leading technology companies. <\/p>\n

“This is a massive opportunity for North Lanarkshire and Scotland, and we want to make sure local people share in it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year the government announced an AI Opportunities Action Plan which included establishing AI growth zones “to facilitate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-396497","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-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396497","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=396497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}