The US president has framed AI data centres as the defining economic resource of the coming decades, arguing they will deliver wealth and investment to communities even as inflation and borrowing costs weigh on households.
The US president has framed AI data centres as the defining economic resource of the coming decades, arguing they will deliver wealth and investment to communities even as inflation and borrowing costs weigh on households.
Where I live, a data centre means three years of parish council meetings, a substation the size of a bungalow, and a promise of forty jobs that turn out to be six contractors and a security guard. Oil of the next fifty years. Marvellous. We can’t build a bypass without a judicial review, yet hyperscale server farms are meant to save us. Our grid connection queue alone will outlive most of the cabinet.