The AI jobs panic isn’t backed by the numbers. The AI energy problem is real, and it’s now a question of whether Britain can build and deploy fast enough to compete. Since late 2023, the share of UK businesses using artificial intelligence has almost tripled from around 12% to 35%, according to data from the ONS. Yet most of those businesses report no change at all to their overall headcount, and a wider review of the labour market evidence found no consistent displacement, even in the…