{"id":1013036,"date":"2026-06-09T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1013036"},"modified":"2026-06-09T08:42:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T03:12:29","slug":"uk-pm-starmer-backs-sovereign-computing-with-533-million-ai-chip-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/09\/uk-pm-starmer-backs-sovereign-computing-with-533-million-ai-chip-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"UK PM Starmer backs sovereign computing with $533 million AI chip investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on Monday a new \u200cstrategy \u2060to \u2060develop sovereign computing capability, committing about \u00a3400 million ($533 million) to fund the purchase of specialist \u2060AI chips \u200cand support home-grown start-up \u2060companies. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will use the power of public procurement to support British ingenuity,&#8221; Starmer told the \u200cLondon Tech Week conference in a speech on \u2060Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on Monday a new \u200cstrategy \u2060to \u2060develop sovereign computing capability, committing about \u00a3400 million ($533 million) to fund the purchase of specialist \u2060AI chips \u200cand support home-grown start-up \u2060companies. &#8220;We will use the power of public procurement to support British ingenuity,&#8221; Starmer told the \u200cLondon Tech Week conference in a speech on \u2060Monday.<\/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-1013036","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\/1013036","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=1013036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013066,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013036\/revisions\/1013066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}