Submitted 2 days ago by Armand1@lemmy.world to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/28/labour-green-party-zack-polanski-ai-datacentres
The government hit back at the opposition party’s proposal of a “moratorium other than [for] local-scale datacentres for the local community”, saying it “would be a disaster for jobs and national security”.
Meanwhile, our energy costs are already sky high and we’re in a dire drought. I think we should prioritize people over business.
What the actual fuck do we need datacentres for this shite? Who is making money from this in the UK? Other than whoever is paid to build these boondoggles, of course. Last I checked AI doesn’t make actual money.
Don’t worry, the datacenters don’t employ anyone, either.
To be fair, we can have our own data centres without allowing them to have priority over our clean safe drinking water. It’s not just a crazy tree hugging green view that people should come before AI and data hosting (especially when the data centres are largely being used for surveillance, and not for the divestment from US data centres). This is obvious because we continue selling NHS, criminal justice and welfare data to US businesses and opting for the trans-atlantic subscription model instead of using UK companies (unless Tony Blair’s son has shares in them ofc).
Ofc they would. Labour are conservatives in red. They’re as much as corrupt as the conservatives. Maybe even as much as farage
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 2 days ago
Then they declared him antisemitic for opposing datacenters.