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Big, noisy and coming to a town near you - why the data centre backlash is growing
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BBC This month
Microsoft pulls out of AI datacentre project in Essex over power supply concerns
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+2Covered by 5 sources Outlander star criticises data centre plan for nuclear site
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BBC MediaTek's Big AI Plans: 2nm Chips, Agentic AI & Data Centres | Anku Jain at IMC 2026
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ET AI (The Economic Times) US AI data centre startups raise $33.5 billion in 2026 amid power constraints: Morgan Stanley
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ET AI (The Economic Times) NTT Data reportedly nears deal to build Anthropic’s first Japan data centre
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The Next Web Data centre raises noise and wildlife impact fears
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BBC Sesterce plans €10B AI data centre campus at former Finnish paper mill
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The Next Web Finland orders halt to work on two Google data centres
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+1Covered by 4 sources Oracle moves gas by trucks to keep its AI data centres on schedule
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The Next Web CoreWeave plans its first India data centres with 240MW from AdaniConneX
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The Next Web Telecom’s DC power legacy can offer a blueprint for AI data centres: Vertiv’s Greg Funk
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ET AI (The Economic Times) Why are data centres such a big deal in Scotland?
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BBC Caverion to build €15M substation for Nebius data centre in Finland
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The Next Web Alibaba in early talks with Spain’s Solaria over power for a data centre
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The Next Web More than 100 turn out for data centre meeting amid concerns
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BBC Japan eyes $140bn AI data centre push with Dell and JERA, FT reports
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The Next Web Texas politics may delay Chevron data centre decision, Semafor reports
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The Next Web ByteDance rents a fifth of China’s data centre capacity, SemiAnalysis says
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The Next Web Oracle sends force majeure notice on its New Mexico Stargate data center
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+2Covered by 5 sources Telangana targets 5 GW data centre capacity by 2029
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ET AI (The Economic Times) Huge data centres rise at 'China speed' to power its AI ambitions
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BBC Data centre will be blot on landscape - protesters
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BBC Huawei wants your AI data centre to prop up the grid, not just drain it
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The Next Web Data centre demand drives NI manufacturing boom
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BBC No consent for large AI data centres before Christmas, MSPs told
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BBC Burnham won’t pause UK data centres as a report says jobs are overstated
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The Next Web Nvidia signs eight Australian data centre partners for up to 2GW of AI capacity by 2027
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The Next Web OpenAI just anchored an Australian company’s Malaysian data centres
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The Next Web Texas Republicans are running against data centres, and both Senate candidates want the same water rules
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The Next Web JPMorgan leads a $5B debt package for Volta’s AI data centre buildout
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The Next Web Australia may face a rush of datacentre construction as AI firms look to avoid upcoming rules, experts say
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Covered by 2 sources UK digital infrastructure investment hit £11.2bn in 2025
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The Next Web Germany’s Uniper pivots to data centres with a €5bn plan to power the AI boom
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The Next Web The AI boom needs power and rockets. Trump just exempted both from environmental law.
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The Next Web Data centres could pay hundreds of millions in deposits for power demands
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BBC Queensland and NT reject Labor’s push to ensure that power-hungry AI datacentres use renewable energy
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Covered by 2 sources Data centre backlash goes national as protests hit 42 US states
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The Next Web Britain’s flagship AI data centre can’t get the power to switch on
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The Next Web Europe’s sovereign AI ambition risks stalling on data centre limits, new research warns
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The Next Web AI data centres are driving up power bills at America’s Rust Belt factories
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The Next Web Meta signs new AI computing deals with data-centre firm Crusoe
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The Next Web Labor to set terms for datacentre and AI growth as it vows not to repeat mistakes of resources boom
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The Guardian Two Amazon data centres in the UAE were hit by drones. The Gulf’s AI ambitions are being tested.
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The Next Web AI is killing the cheap smartphone. The memory that powers your phone now goes to data centres instead.
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The Next Web Spain’s Solaria raises €300m to power data centres with solar and battery storage
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