{"id":29009,"date":"2025-02-10T01:23:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T09:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/government-opens-bidding-for-new-ai-growth-zones\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T01:23:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T09:23:30","slug":"government-opens-bidding-for-new-ai-growth-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/government-opens-bidding-for-new-ai-growth-zones\/","title":{"rendered":"Government opens bidding for new AI Growth Zones"},"content":{"rendered":"

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These growth zones will speed up planning permission to rapidly build AI<\/abbr>\u00a0infrastructure including data centres and give them the energy connections needed to power\u00a0AI<\/abbr>\u00a0innovations in areas like healthcare.<\/p>\n

Local and regional authorities across the country are being called on to put their communities forward to become dedicated hotbeds for AI infrastructure development.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s invitation for expression of interest<\/a> also extends to AI data centre companies and energy firms. They are being called on to set out: timelines and development milestones that detail how they will plan to ramp up energy capacity; partnership opportunities with local authorities.<\/p>\n

Science and Technology minister Peter Kyle said that interest was already building for promising sites in Scotland, Wales, the North East, and North West, with further exploratory work now set to begin on additional locations across the UK.<\/p>\n

As part of this, the government will work with network operators to rapidly scale each zone to 500MW+, enough to power roughly two million homes.<\/p>\n

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