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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Robert Booth UK technology editor

Labour rejects Zack Polanski’s call to ‘slam brakes’ on building AI datacentres

Aerial view of a datacentre under construction with a crane, beside an operational facility in Slough
Equinix datacentre under construction (right) and an operational datacentre (left) in Slough. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

Labour has rejected calls to pause construction of major AI infrastructure in Britain after the Green party leader, Zack Polanski, said it was time to “slam the brakes on these energy-guzzling, water-guzzling 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”.

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