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A village in Oxfordshire will become a global tech hub rivalling Silicon Valley if government plans succeed. 

Culham, population 453 at last count, has been designated as an AI Growth Hub as part of a bid to ‘turbocharge’ tech in the UK. 

Keir Starmer announced last night that the government will invest massively in the sector to drive economic growth, taking on the current giants of the US and China and hoping to attract billions of pounds of investment. 

The village near Abingdon is the first growth zone to be identified, and it is not merely a sleepy hamlet chosen randomly. It is also the headquarters of the UK Atomic Energy Authority, and hosts a lab for fusion research. This means it has the potential to provide the vast amounts of energy needed to power AI models.

Other zones will be announced as the plan continues, and all will be able to boast faster planning decisoins and access …