Shout out to the dude in Manchester who has decided to try to cash in on the GenAI boom and then shit the bed when journalists tried to fact check anything.

https://manchestermill.co.uk/is-chris-kenna-manchesters-first-ai-billionaire-in-the-making-or-a-serial-fantasist/

Is Chris Kenna Manchester’s first AI billionaire in the making — or a serial fantasist?

He’s been feted by the press as a tech pioneer. But we can’t find his data centres

The Mill
lol at the idea Rochdale canal is going to cool an AI data center
@GossiTheDog
Seeing where this datacentre is meant to be reminded me of this just around the corner for some reason. It's been in this state for at least 20 years.
@simon @GossiTheDog that mangy thing is also the result of SCC ineptitude, and definitely a scummy developer attempting to bait and switch the planning scope, then claim it was untenable when they didn't get their desired revisions. Developer's ltd company doing that building went into 'sudden' liquidation not long afterwards iirc, to phoenix and avoid their liabilities. A lot of debtors unpaid and resultant job losses.
@cw
That's interesting and not surprising. Kenna sounds like at best a fantasist and at worst a conman, but I suspect he wouldn't be the first or the last in the Quays, and AI is yet another vehicle for it.
@GossiTheDog