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The Guardian - UK
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Tell us: do you live near the site of a planned AI datacentre in the UK?

Do you live near the site of a planned AI datacentre?
Do you live near the site of a planned AI datacentre? Photograph: Horst Friedrichs/Alamy

The Scottish National Party and the Greens have backed a moratorium on new developments of AI datacentres, as part of a growing backlash against the boom.

There are currently around 450 large data centres across the UK. These warehouses contain computing infrastructure that power cloud services and, increasingly, AI.

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