The UK needs to matter. I can see two main ways that the UK ends up mattering:
I haven’t thought about this much, but next to the two things you said, maybe something related to data centers could also turn out to be relevant. (Certainly with regulatory diffusion, but maybe the UK infrastructure is significant by itself.) I think the UK ranks third in numbers of data centers, but the stats for China might be unreliable (so possible that it would rank fourth with complete stats). (Thanks to Konstantin Pilz for making me aware of this!)
Really cool report!
I haven’t thought about this much, but next to the two things you said, maybe something related to data centers could also turn out to be relevant. (Certainly with regulatory diffusion, but maybe the UK infrastructure is significant by itself.) I think the UK ranks third in numbers of data centers, but the stats for China might be unreliable (so possible that it would rank fourth with complete stats). (Thanks to Konstantin Pilz for making me aware of this!)
Thanks for this; I wasn’t tracking it and it does seem potentially relevant.