For companies seeking to build a giant data centre in Great Britain right now, the biggest bottleneck isn’t a shortage of cutting-edge chips, a lack of capital eager to fund the next wave of large language models (LLMs) or inference workloads, or the availability of software engineers who understand neural networks. The bottleneck is the electricity grid and associated infrastructure, which currently features a waiting list that can stretch comfortably into the next decade.
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