Question follow-through · 24689
Artificial Intelligence: Infrastructure
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what criteria his Department is using to select sites as AI Growth Zones.
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 17 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 27 Jan 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what criteria his Department is using to select sites as AI Growth Zones.
21 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Jan 2025
Answer published
Central government will lay out a selection process, and local / regional authorities will be able to nominate themselves to host an AI Growth Zone. Important criteria will include power infrastructure or line of sight to power, along with supportive loca...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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