It impresses people when they see these huge buildings. What they don't realise is how few people work in them, and that many of those that do aren't locals but contractors visiting for the… (View Post)

Data centres are the worst as once they are built they do not employ many people. The idea that they bring lots of skilled jobs to an area is nonsense, so paying millions to host one is nuts. Still i… (View Post)

I'd be very happy for the likes of Intel to build fabs in the UK. I just don't think we should pay some of the most highly profitable businesses in the world in order for them to do so. The… (View Post)

No doubt that if Intel did build a fab here the very same people would bemoan us giving the highly profitable Intel many hundreds of millions of pounds to do so. I'd much rather the UK had a R&a… (View Post)

In all likelihood the only way we would have got a semiconductor factory is with a bung. The US government is spending tens of billions to support the US semiconductor business, despite that business… (View Post)