Comment by ntonozzi
12 hours ago
The UK is begging for people to build datacenters: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/09/revealed-...
12 hours ago
The UK is begging for people to build datacenters: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/09/revealed-...
National governments maybe. Local ones aren’t, and it’s those that fill with nimbys and maintain the majority of control over planning
Everyone wants the datacenter somewhere in their country for sovereignty... just not next to them. Quelle surprise. At this point you may as well build supermarkets on top of them just to sell 'em to people.
They're so absurdly capital intensive at this point that they probably ought to be buried at least 50 meters down. If any reasonably capable countries ever face off directly they'll probably be one of the first things to go.