🇬🇧UK Growth Minister Dan Tomlinson reaffirmed continued AI development and the government’s treatment of data centers as critical infrastructure.

Growth Minister Dan Tomlinson said the UK would not slow AI development in response to opposition to AI and data-center construction in the United States. His comments followed reported US election victories by Democratic candidates advocating stronger oversight and slower data-center development.

Tomlinson argued that the UK should not assume it would reproduce the same political confrontation. He reaffirmed the government’s approach of advancing data-center construction as critical infrastructure.

The minister said the UK had observed disorderly development in parts of the United States and drawn lessons from it. He also said the UK regulatory framework already incorporated some oversight mechanisms sought by the successful US candidates, although the supplied report does not identify those mechanisms or announce a new regulatory measure.