UK AI Infrastructure Crisis: Pathfinder AI's £15bn Collapse Exposes the Cracks in Britain's Compute Ambitions

A £15bn Scottish AI data centre project has imploded in spectacular fashion, with courts finally settling a vicious battle between its co-founders last week. Pathfinder AI, which had secured a 196-acre site in Ayrshire and raised £100m at a £500m valuation from investors including billionaire Michael Dell, collapsed after co-founders Patrick Hughes and Martin Bellamy turned on each other. Hughes emailed Dell warning of alleged misuse of funds; the board tried to wrest...