@carl92.
We’ve heard big promises before. Next thing you know, we’ll have ‘Silicon Valley’ in a field somewhere with one office block and a Greggs
@PhoenixRPx
The fact that Leeds is the only Northern City with a large Export base, shows the neglect of the north despite how much potential it has
@marpro212
UK needs cheap energy. It is the foundation for any economy to grow.
@ItzOvah
Silicon Valley without the Silicon Valley salaries
@r_glynn
when you have the highest energy prices in europe, you can forget being a leader in any tech industry
@gussief
Err, are oxford and Cambridge in the midlands now then?...
@regarded9702
Nice to see the usual british optimism in these comments. Personally I am thrilled to see a government finally investing in infrastructure.
@tcs36
Actually 8 F1 teams are partly based in that region not 3. Williams in Grove, HAAS in Banbury, VCarb in Bicester, Alpine Near Enstone, Mercedes in Brackley, Aston Martin and Andretti at Silverstone and Red Bull in Milton Keynes as well as Mercedes HPP and Red Bull Powertrains. There is also a huge supplier industry in advanced manufacturing in this area in additive manufacture, surface technologies, and composites. Many smaller motorsport teams in FE like Jaguar and DS penske as well as Rally suppliers like Pro Drive are also in this area.
@scottallan4519
Average wage in Silicon Valley for tech is $151k, ain’t gonna attract much talent with the wages in the uk
@h-Qalziel
No mention of the fact that Edinburgh University was being allocated £800 million for a new supercomputer in 2023, which would have been one of the most powerful computers in the world, but was quietly scrapped just after Starmer came into office, despite the fact that the university had already spent £31 million of its own money for a purpose-built building to store the computer. The fact that money is now being earmarked for OxBridge is shameful, especially if a supercomputer is built there instead.
@TC16_1
Describing Oxford - Cambridge as the Midlands is disgraceful
@carl92.
Knowing our bureaucracy, the paperwork alone will take a decade—and by the time a startup makes its first £1, they’ll be taxed into another dimension.
@Fleck10290
A big issue is that Silicon Valley was developed naturally. IBM chose that area for their offices and then innovated and used silicon in their chips, so it was then named Silicon Valley. It wasn’t forced to become something, it just did
@jackbrownio3
Might make MK more than just a shopping centre
@frengo96
Here is the thing. We have a "UK silicon valley" it's in South Wales. It's the compound semiconductor cluster!
@CountVonCount2011
You're doing it wrong. You don't build a SV; you create the conditions for it to build itself.
@a4482921
It’s impossible to build a shed in Britain without spending your family fortune. The entire planning system needs to be binned and rewritten before any of these grand dreams can even hope to get off the ground.
@MrSimmetria
As a Pole, I'd rather buy advanced tech from the UK than USA.
@JSmith19858
The Oxford to Cambridge, Home Counties London commuter belt. That well known deprived area in desparate need of investment and support. I will also point out David Cameron said exactly this 15 years ago about expanding 'Silicon Fen'
@wonderman1918