OpenAI’s £30bn Stargate UK data centre project was paused in April over regulation and energy cost worries, and fresh reporting now suggests £20bn of the “potential” investment was hypothetical and key officials never even visited the flagship Cobalt Park site in North Tyneside. The scheme, unveiled during Donald Trump’s state visit last year, looks less like a cornerstone of US-UK tech partnership and more like a well-timed press release. In the same corporate...