OpenAI halts UK stargate project amid regulatory and energy price concerns

OpenAI has paused its Stargate project in the U.K., which was planned to deploy up to 8,000 graphics processing units (GPUs, the specialized hardware used to train and run AI models) for AI infrastructure. The company cited two main reasons: the U.K.'s high industrial energy costs and concerns about the country's regulatory environment, particularly new rules being developed around how AI models can use copyrighted work.