The Lanarkshire AI Growth Zone will be delivered by home-grown data centre company DataVita, around their data centre site in Airdrie and in partnership with AI cloud firm CoreWeave. Of these jobs, around 800 are expected to focus on the high-paying AI jobs of the future, including everything from AI researchers and coders through to permanent staff who will run and maintain data centres. The rest will be made up of immediate construction jobs, as attention turns to building out the entire site, including data centres, supportive infrastructure and a renewables park. “By bringing billions of pounds of investment into Lanarkshire, we are creating good, well-paid jobs and funding support that directly helps families with the cost of living. North Lanarkshire didn’t just power the industrial revolution, this leap in technology makes us the natural home to lead the next one.