Michael Dell, Lord Johnson and the ‘gun to the head’ meeting that ended a £15bn AI project

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AI Pathfinder raised over £100m from investors before things took a turn In December, billionaire Michael Dell opened an alarming email. “My trust in Mr Bellamy has been undermined by the way he has ...

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fractious relationship with fellow co-founder and investor, Martin Bellamy.Dell, the world’s seventh-richest person with a net worth of more than $200bn, had been courted to play a big role in the startup, called Pathfinder AI, supporting its plans to build a huge new data centre in Scotland as part of a £15bn investment plan.But those plans were quickly crumbling: one of its founders was now warning him of alleged misuse of funds by the other. \n\nPathfinder’s board soon caught wind of the email, setting off a chain of events in which directors tried to wrest control of the business from Hughes. They would all later end up in court, in a case that reached its final conclusion last week.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNews Updates\nStay ahead with our three daily briefings delivering all the key market moves, top business and political stories, and incisive analysis straight to your inbox.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen ideas were first drawn up for the project, it looked set to be a highly lucrative one, capitalising on the surge in investment in AI and the infrastructure needed to power it and adding itself to a list of dozens of data centre planning applications filed up and down the UK since the start of the year.Serial entrepreneur Martin Bellamy, chairman of Salamanca Group, teamed up with waste management tycoon Martin Huges in the middle of last year and formed an Isle of Man-based holding company that would become the founding shareholder of Pathfinder.The pair then had secured an option to acquire a 196 acre site in Ayrshire from the local council to build the huge data centre campus, and the startup recruited a high-profile board of directors, including former investment minister and chairman of the Conservative party, Lord Dominic Johnson.\n\nBy November, before spades were in the ground in Ayrshire, Pathfinder had completed its seed funding round, raising £100m at a £500m valuation. The Wykes family, owners of Wykes engineering, were the biggest investors, while some of the directors, including Johnson, also poured cash into the round.Bitter squabblesBut tensions were already bubbling up between Hughes and Bellamy. The pair held an “acrimonious” meeting weeks earlier, in which they squabbled over how the business was being funded. Hughes had advanced a loan of £12.5m, £7.5m of which had already been spent. He asked Bellamy to stump up his own £12.5m as part of the partnership. But Bellamy said he’d made no such undertaking.Hughes then questioned the legitimacy of the funding round and the director appointments, alleging that he was unaware of company resolutions that had been passed to give them effect (according to Bellamy, they had already been agreed with Hughes). The board urged the pair to settle their differences in a way that would not “disrupt” the funding round. Their counsel was not heeded.Hughes fired off the email to Dell, and things quickly escalated. Pathfinder’s board decided they needed to seek legal advice over the legitimacy of the funding round. The board eventually concluded it would be safest to return the seed money back to shareholders.","kind":"highlight","is_publish_news":true,"is_publish_highlight":false,"is_publish_live":false,"is_publish_wemedia":false,"editions":null,"column":"","sentiment":"0","news_tag":"","news_rank":0,"isVideo":false,"video":null,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":0,"need_auth":false,"need_login_tip":false,"code":"91000000","status":"200"}}}