“The former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg put it more bluntly that week, calling the UK a “vassal state technologically”.

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“The former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg put it more bluntly that week, calling the UK a “vassal state technologically”. Clegg this week became a board director at Nscale, the UK company involved in the Loughton AI deal, where its client is Microsoft – part of the US tech hegemony whose power he lamented six months ago.”

Drain’s stinking? Foul stench? Suspicious blockage?

It’s probably Clegged up.

Tech’s Fatberg lodges himself into another lucrative position.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/mar/14/datacentre-boom-is-uk-ai-bubble-about-to-burst