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Taiwan Chip Firm Unimicron Seeks Up to $1.4 Billion in Offering

Taiwan Chip Firm Unimicron Seeks Up to $1.4 Billion in Offering Chip supplier Unimicron Technology Corp. is seeking as much as $1.4 billion from a sale of global depositary shares, according to terms of the deal seen by Bloomberg News, tapping the market amid heightened investor enthusiasm for companies aligned with the boom in artificial intelligence. The Taiwanese company is selling 50 million global depositary shares at $26.96 to $27.76 each, the terms show. That’s a 3% to 6% discount to...

‘It’s smoke and mirrors’: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI datacentre

Suspicions grow in Lanarkshire that local people have been misled on supposed benefits of the huge developmentRevealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promiseWhat are Britain’s AI growth zones and are the plans feasible or ‘complete bunk’?The promise was that a Scottish community would be transformed by massive investment and empowered to chase “the jobs of the future”. Instead, local people in Lanarkshire fear they may have to sell their properties and...

Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise

Exclusive: Government and developers privately acknowledged Lanarkshire datacentre site had power provision ‘issue’‘It’s smoke and mirrors’: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI datacentreWhat are Britain’s AI growth zones and are the plans feasible or ‘complete bunk’?A landmark AI development billed as delivering jobs and prosperity has misrepresented its plans to channel a nuclear reactor’s worth of power to a site in rural Scotland, a Guardian investigation has found. When...