17 August

If you’re swept up in the viral outrage over data centres, here’s a tip to make them go away. Get off social media and the internet, and stop streaming and using AI in record amounts. You’re the cause of the data centres you affect to hate. Like the saying goes, you’re not in traffic. You are the traffic. Even the viral outrage against data centres is carried out inside the servers, in data centres. Personally I love what online life brings, and so welcome data centres where they’re needed. For regional areas, they’re also a critical source of new economic activity, linked to renewable energy.