Artificial Intelligence: Lanarkshire
(asked on 28th August 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the Lanarkshire AI Growth Zone on Scotland's computing capacity and artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Answered by
Kanishka Narayan
Minister of State (Cabinet Office) (Jointly with the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Technology)
The Lanarkshire AI Growth Zone will strengthen Scotland's computing capacity by accelerating delivery of large-scale AI data centre infrastructure and increasing the amount of compute available in the UK.
The Lanarkshire AIGZ is also supporting significant private investment, creating skilled jobs and apprenticeships, and is contributing to the infrastructure needed to support the UK's AI ambitions.
Work is already well underway at the AI Growth Zone, and frontier AI chips will be live at the site next year, supporting the UK’s computing capacity and AI infrastructure goals.