OpenAI's absence from a pivotal UK site visit casts uncertainty over Stargate UK, a £20bn datacentre project touted as vital to the US-UK technology partnership.
The initiative was seen as a major milestone in US-UK tech collaboration
Jul 05, 2026
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What's the storyOpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, had announced plans for Stargate UK, a multi-billion-pound data center project in the United Kingdom.
The initiative was seen as a major milestone in US-UK tech collaboration.
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The project was part of a package of tech investment promising the UK could become an AI superpower.
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