Daniel McConnell

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The Business Post Podcast · The Business Post Podcast Live: George Osborne on the need for a global regime to regulate AI · 25 Sep 2026 podcast

I suppose from a public perspective, can we rely on companies of yourself to always act in in that altruistic way and declare such things? matched

Because I think that's the fear is that these things can very quickly get out of control. matched

Where stands Ireland, Europe in that race? matched

Because again, obviously there's been a lot of talk about Asia and China, particularly uh at the forefront of this. matched

But there's always there's been a long standing belief that Europe is not fit for purpose. matched

We've obviously seen Draghi's report around competitiveness, but we just think in terms of the i regulation space, we seem to be behind the curve. matched

What's your assessment of where Europe stands in terms of AI? matched

Well, matched

You obviously as a previous Chancellor of the Exchequer and you're I know you're meeting both Simon Harris and Jack Chambers later today. matched

But if you're a politician and a company like OpenAI came in looking for access, help, infrastructure, regulatory flexibility, would you be suspicious? matched

Would you what would you be saying? matched

Because uh what's your message to government essentially today? matched

We've had a very lively debate here in Ireland around the role of data centres and the requirement to have data centres here and it's been a moratorium here. matched

Uh and I know you were criticizing I saw that in The Guardian or the Observer creating about NIMBYism in terms of uh opposition to to data centers. matched

Is there not a legitimate public concern that you know w the system, the grid just won't be able to carry or handle the level of capacity that these sort of data centres are going to require? matched

Uh please do. matched

That's very American of you. matched

We know that I'm just moving on slightly, we know that the Teo Shook met Andy Burnham in m um number ten north last week. matched

Yeah. matched

Um and we've obviously seen given I think when you were Chancellor of the Exchequer and David Cameron was pr Prime Minister matched

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