Motion or amendment: Artificial Intelligence Strategy
Motion or amendment by Mr Matthew O'Toole on .
- MLA
- Mr Matthew O'Toole
- Party at the time
- Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Date
- 1 September 2026
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion · Private Members' Motion
- Heading
- Artificial Intelligence Strategy
- Assembly identifier
- Document 496248
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Text
Artificial Intelligence Strategy
That this Assembly recognises that the climate crisis is already impacting communities, public services and the economy; welcomes the Executive Office consultation on the draft Northern Ireland Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy; further recognises the significant potential benefits from the expansion of AI technology; believes, however, that these opportunities must be balanced against the environmental and infrastructure demands associated with large-scale AI data centres; is concerned that the centres’ significant energy and water requirements could place further pressure on already constrained infrastructure, increase costs for consumers and make it harder to meet Northern Ireland’s climate targets; further believes that these consequences must be fully understood before further large-scale development takes place; and calls for a moratorium on new large-scale AI data centres until a full cost-benefit analysis of their economic, environmental, and social impacts has been completed.
139 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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