Pilar Girvan

There is something quietly disorienting about the idea of Ravenscraig, in part, being reborn as a data centre. Where furnaces once burned and 10,000 workers shaped steel into substantive products, the proposed Ravenscraig AI Energy Campus will produce little that is visible. No smoke. No flames. No tangible product. Just data moving invisibly through servers across 160 acres of remediated ground, consuming 550MW of electricity, the equivalent of half a million homes, in near-total silence.

A newly published survey conducted by Ipsos, in collaboration with the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at King’s College London, reveals a significant shift in attitudes towards gender equality in the UK.

AI has become an ubiquitous part of our lives, whether we explicitly engage with it or not. The websites we visit, the apps we use, and even the chatbots we communicate with to locate undelivered parcels are all utilising or beginning to utilise AI and its chatbot capabilities. We may ask a chatbot to suggest ideas and outlines for a conference, to write simple media posts, or to discover a quick and simple answer to a question we’re currently pondering.