Jesse Ramdeo

The Gov­ern­ment con­tin­ues to push back against grow­ing crit­i­cism over its pro­posed ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence da­ta cen­tres, with Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion and Skills Train­ing Min­is­ter Pro­fes­sor Prakash Per­sad ac­cus­ing op­po­nents of be­ing “naysay­ers” who com­plain re­gard­less of the out­come, while Pe­nal/Debe Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion Chair­man Gow­tam Ma­haraj sought to re­as­sure the pub­lic that any risks as­so­ci­at­ed with the project would be prop­er­ly man­aged.

The com­ments come amid in­creas­ing pub­lic de­bate fol­low­ing last week’s sign­ing of three Mem­o­ran­da of Un­der­stand­ing (MOUs) be­tween the Gov­ern­ment and Unit­ed States or­gan­i­sa­tions.