{"id":1002229,"date":"2026-04-10T10:36:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002229"},"modified":"2026-04-10T10:37:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:07:53","slug":"openai-pauses-uk-data-centre-project-over-regulation-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/10\/openai-pauses-uk-data-centre-project-over-regulation-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI pauses UK data centre project over regulation, costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is pausing its main data centre project \u200bin Britain over an unfavourable regulatory \u200benvironment and high energy costs, dealing a blow to the \u200bUK government&#8217;s push to position the country as a global AI hub. <\/p>\n<p>Microsoft-backed OpenAI, which has emerged as a leading player following the widespread adoption of ChatGPT, said on Thursday it would proceed with \u200cthe data \u2060centre once \u2060conditions were in place to support sustained, long-term investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is pausing its main data centre project \u200bin Britain over an unfavourable regulatory \u200benvironment and high energy costs, dealing a blow to the \u200bUK government&#8217;s push to position the country as a global AI hub. Microsoft-backed OpenAI, which has emerged as a leading player following the widespread adoption of ChatGPT, said on Thursday it would proceed with \u200cthe data \u2060centre once \u2060conditions were in place to support sustained, long-term investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}