UK Government minister Liz Kendall (Image: PA Wire/PA Images)

Wales is getting a second artificial intelligence (AI) growth zone aimed at accelerating the delivery of new data centres and supporting required skills. Following confirmation of an AI growth zone for north Wales , the UK Government has announced a second in south Wales that will cover a number of data centre and planned data centre sites.

That will include the former Bridgend Ford engine plant where US data centre company Vantage Data Centers is taking forward investment, worth billions of pounds, to build a campus of 10 data centres.

It also includes Vantage's data centre project, for which it was recently granted planning consent, at the Welsh Government -owned Bro Tathan business park in the Vale of Glamorgan. Th

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