A new £100m AI centre on Teesside will be the very first of its type in the country, giving the region a head start of years in a technological revolution, a company director has said.

Andy Collin, managing director of Latos Data Centres, said of the forthcoming centre , which has just been given planning permission by Stockton Council and could bring 550 jobs: "In the next 24 months Teesside will have the very first genuinely AI-ready data centre in the whole of the UK. It basically gives us a jump-start so that local businesses can provide services that no area in the country is really capable of doing.

"We're targeting AI inferencing, which is closer to the consumer and where the activity happens in urban conurbations. It runs things like vehicle automation and traffic signalling.

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