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“Plans to boost the AI industry, beginning with a new growth zone in Oxfordshire…”
Yeah, so definitely no new supercomputer at Edinburgh Uni, then…
“The government’s ambitions for AI-driven public sector reform raise another set of questions—although the risk of harms being ignored in favour of a boosterish focus on benefits is the same.”
Yep.
@decembr14 I really don't get why the Edinburgh supercomputer was killed. Having it somewhere where water and wind power is more available makes technical sense – as well as the political one of supporting Scotland visibly.
If you're a developer working on AI, having the right machines, the cost of using them, availability and cost of persistent storage -and how much machine time you can get for your budget- matters way more than where the servers actually are. It's not like anyone is going to put on the headphones and walk into the data centre themselves.
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