Remember how ‘green jobs’ were going to transform the UK economy, creating new opportunities for well-paid careers which would sweep away the dirty, old economy jobs? It is been blown apart by the industry of the moment, Artificial Intelligence, or AI. Suddenly, it doesn’t look quite so clever to build an industrial future based on green energy when AI is gobbling up investment.

It should have been obvious all along that the public were not going to vote for policies which made them poorer

It should have been obvious all along that the public were not going to vote for policies which made them poorer

Enthusiasm for AI, however, is running headlong into the government’s net zero policies, leading to a growing cabinet schism. AI might look modern and clean, yet it is as voracious an energy consumer as all those heavy industries which are being driven from Britain’s shores thanks to high energy prices. According to the International Energy........

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