Short: UK Groups Sue To Block Data Center Expansion

Short: UK Groups Sue To Block Data Center Expansion

Foxglove and Global Action Plan have just sued the UK government over their YOLO hyperscale data center plans.

More like this: Net0++: Data Centre Sprawl

Local government rejected the data center. But Starmer’s administration overruled them. They want to force the development of a water-guzzling, energy draining data center on a local community who has said no. And all of this is on the green belt. The lawsuit filed this week might put a stop to those plans.

Alix sat down Ollie Hayes from Global Action Plan and Martha Dark from Foxglove to discuss the legal challenge filed this week. Why now? Aren’t the UK aiming for Net 0? And how does this relate to the UK government’s wider approach to AI?

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