How locals in Potters Bar, a town near London, are challenging Equinix's $5B data center plans, as the UK reclassifies “green belt” land to boost construction
The residents of Potters Bar are working to protect the “green belt” of farms, forests, and meadows that surround London …
I was thinking about these #AI data centres last night, and how as well as being a new threat to the environment, they would be threatened by serious #flooding too, if in an area this was happening.
The assault on Hertfordshire #greenbelt continues..now planning permission to build a huge #water guzzling data centre on untouched, green fields in Potters Bar...they should be built on ecologically poor brownfield in areas that aren't #water stressed @UKLabour ..that's now 3 [i…
WIRED's piece on Potters Bar is a great reminder that “AI” isn't just models and apps - it's land, power, planning policy, and communities. — What makes it worth reading is the tension it captures really clearly: — • A proposed hyperscale data centre on farmland near London …