The man who may have just saved the City of London is back in his office in Texas recovering. “It has been a brutal month,” he reflects ruefully. Toby Neugebauer, 53, and his business partner — Rick Perry, former governor of the Lone Star state and US energy secretary in the first Trump administration — finally flew out of Heathrow last week after an exhausting marathon round of 110 meetings during three whirlwind trips to the UK.

The pair, alongside Perry’s son Griffin, are behind a frankly mind-bogglingly ambitious “smart electrons” energy and AI masterplan codenamed Project Matador. And they want London to be in on it from the beginning.

The trio hope to create America’s biggest AI data centre campus, covering an area bigger than 16 Hyde Parks, and powered by its own private solar

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