United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 101286
Artificial Intelligence and Data Centres
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17 December 2025
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9 January 2026 · Answer
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Artificial intelligence
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9 January 2026
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether the Government categorises large-scale AI and data-centre infrastructure to be of strategic national importance; and what protections or ownership safeguards it plans to apply t
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17 December 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether the Government categorises large-scale AI and data-centre infrastructure to be of strategic national importance; and what protections or ownership safeguards it plans to apply t
Source: Commons
9 January 2026
Answer
Data centres are vital to the UK’s prosperity and security and underpin our digital economy and AI ambitions. We have taken decisive action and work closely with industry to monitor and mitigate potential future threats to data centres.Last year we design...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-12-17/101286
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1865606
- uk · wq-1865606 · source updated 9 January 2026