The UK government today announced its “AI Opportunities Action Plan” — a rough and buzzword-saturated sketch promising to spend billions on this magical new technology that will achieve unprecedent…
The only concretely good thing in here is that the government is going to use it as a cudgel to impose upgrading the UK electrical grid over the objections of pathetic nimbys who value their views of rolling green fields to things like, oo, people managing to heat their homes in winter without going into debt.
If it also means the government putting the boot into local authorities to force them to permit local economic development I’ll take that too.
The only concretely good thing in here is that the government is going to use it as a cudgel to impose upgrading the UK electrical grid over the objections of pathetic nimbys who value their views of rolling green fields to things like, oo, people managing to heat their homes in winter without going into debt.
If it also means the government putting the boot into local authorities to force them to permit local economic development I’ll take that too.
eh not really? this plan involves commercial SMRs, which don’t exist yet.
they’ve already made it clear they’re gonna put in wind/solar over the objections of local NIMBYs, which is one move I’ll credit them with