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UK’s biggest AI supercomputer delayed by power supply issues
Sep 24, 2026SOURCE: theguardian.com
SO WHAT
When compute muscle is delayed, the thousand-day window narrows for public choice—power bottlenecks become a gatekeeper for who gets intelligence first.
Government-hailed datacentre in Loughton, Essex will miss its next-year start and may slip to the mid-2030s. The old system’s constraints are throttling the phase transition timeline.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.