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Datacentres

October 2026

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    Rights and freedom
    Electrocutions, disease and no pay: how workers risk exploitation in Europe’s datacentres

  • Aerial view of Google's planned data centre site in Muhos, Finland, with cleared forest

    Finland launches criminal investigation into Google’s clearing of forest for datacentre site

  • person holds sign saying 'fight datacenters'

    Will it be AI or the climate crisis that ends humanity? We can make it neither

    Adam McKay and Philip Eubanks
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    Meta plans $95bn stock offering to help cover AI expansion

  • ‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

  • AI overlords say they want to democratise their technology. Here’s how

    Richard Wilson and Clara Long

  • Did Ukrainian strikes on Russian datacentres reduce online disinformation?

  • ‘This is not an anti-tech town’: backlash to datacenter in city once home to IBM

  • ‘These guys are just coming from nothing’: questions over multibillion-dollar Firmus float amid datacentre backlash

September 2026

  • Protesters hold signs reading "No AI Data Centres" and "Honk To Stop Data Centres" in Melbourne

    Australian backlash to datacentres is faux import from US, officials say: ‘We are not the United States’

  • A group of men sit on a bench underneath a tree.

    Broken promises, confiscated land: the hyperscale AI datacentre being built in a tiny Indian village

  • Firefighters extinguishing a fire at an office building with an orange car in foreground.

    Russia strikes at heart of Ukraine’s digital economy with attacks on ISPs and datacentres

  • Heather Stewart

    Economics viewpoint
    AI slowdown calls justified but collapse of bubble may be more immediate threat

    Heather Stewart

  • Datacenter rush will create ‘tsunami’ of discarded electronics, report says

  • Could AI really wipe out humanity – six experts spell out the risks

  • AI-linked stocks slide after tech bosses call for slowdown in ‘reckless’ development

  • ‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn

  • Saturday Opinion cartoon
    Steve Jones on the pros and cons of AI datacentres – cartoon

  • First Edition newsletter
    Wednesday briefing: ​What’s behind the global backlash against datacentres?

    Newsletter

  • Why does everyone hate datacentres?

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