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Democrats won seats on anti-datacentre tickets and Musk wasted nearly half a billion dollars. Big tech may be losing its grip, but it won’t go quietly, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

Power and water constraints are pressuring what seemed like a juggernaut of growth for the region just months ago

Separate actions also take place outside fence and across Europe in backlash against impact of AI boom

Albanese should tread carefully as he struggles to make case for how the new technology will benefit ordinary voters

More than 100 campaign groups will join together in 15 countries this week to call for a halt to major AI projects

Drax’s FTSE 250 owner strikes £20bn deal to build infrastructure in what it says is site’s ‘next chapter’

As thousands of datacentres are constructed across Europe, the Guardian and Investigate Europe have uncovered disturbing evidence that some workers building them are exposed to dangerous conditions and living in fear of speaking out

Authorities allege company may have breached Finnish environmental laws by forgoing required impact assessment

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

The AI boom is pitting local residents against corporate giants seeking to power their energy-hungry networks – but one Welsh city is fighting back

Exclusive: Nvidia, Microsoft and Cisco taskforce urges ministers to offer areas greater benefits from tech infrastructure amid fears of US-style opposition

xAI is renting huge amounts of GPU capacity to Anthropic and Google. Financial engineering ahead of the SpaceX IPO, a real compute shortage, or a genuine datacentre advantage? Probably all three.

Industry body says energy consumption driven by AI up 15% globally in two years as it warns of societal backlash

Emissions understated by factor of five in Essex plans for tech giant, while Greystoke’s Lincolnshire plans show similar error

Residents say massive, noisy AI factories with unknown environmental impacts are being rushed into development right next to their homes

AtkinsRéalis has announced a new partnership with Nvidia that will deliver nuclear-powered data centre designs