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Everyone hates datacentres. Do we really need them? – video

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AI companies have promised us world-shifting technology. But there’s a cost: loud, unsightly datacentres that drain environmental resources. As the government pushes their rapid growth, can local communities do anything to push back? Madeleine Finlay speaks to the Guardian’s global technology reporter Aisha Down about the backlash to datacentres across the UK and around the

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Everyone hates datacentres. Do we really need them? – podcast

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AI companies have promised us world-shifting technology. But there’s a cost: loud, unsightly datacentres that drain environmental resources. As the government pushes their rapid growth, can local communities do anything to push back? Madeleine Finlay speaks to the Guardian’s global technology reporter Aisha Down about the backlash to datacentres across the UK and around the

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Two planned datacentres will have higher UK carbon emissions than ExxonMobil, analysis finds

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Exclusive: Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire sites predicted to emit 4.5m tonnes a year when fully runningThe carbon emissions from just two planned datacentres in England will exceed all of the fossil fuel company ExxonMobil’s UK emissions, analysis has revealed.Experts have said this demonstrates the “serious threat” datacentres pose to the UK’s legally binding climate goals. Continue

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‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom

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Holyrood ‘inching towards moratorium’ amid concerns over massive proposed developments in Auchtertool and beyondIn a village 21 miles north of Edinburgh, a real estate consultancy plans to build a datacentre larger than the village itself – 35 metres high, with an area larger than 100 football pitches.Billed as the second-biggest datacentre in the world, the

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Proposed London datacentre will have annual carbon footprint of 27,000 flights to New York

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Exclusive: Planning documents show datacentre in north Ockendon will be incompatible with UK net zero targetsA “hyperscale” datacentre in outer London would generate more than 1m tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, equivalent to the carbon footprint of 27,000 flights from London to New York, planning documents show.The East Havering Data Centre Campus (EHDCC) in

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Scottish police expect ‘great deal of public opposition’ to planned Larbert datacentre

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Planning consultation told ‘robust security measures’ will be needed amid growing resistance to such developmentsScottish police have warned that a proposed datacentre will require “robust security measures” to prevent “incursion” amid growing public resistance to such developments in Scotland.“A great deal of public opposition is likely” to a datacentre planned in Larbert, about 30 miles

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