Debate is needed on these issues, along with transparency, getting loads of good messages on this.

Molly says I work for Meta until recently.

All I can say is they are power and water hungry, putting huge pressure on power generation and water supply.

Some something like 20% of Irish power is used by data centers.

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Penny Mills is in North Devon.

Hi Penny.

Hello.

You have concerns about a proposed data center near to you.

Why?

Yes, it's shocking.

The first any of us heard about it was just in June and it's a massive proposal, twice as big, I believe, as the next item proposed, and I think that's in the east of England.

This would be on 850 acres of North Devon's farmland in the countryside, just outside the small old market town of Great Torrington.

And I can't tell you the upset this has caused.

There was a big public meeting last night organized by the local residence group, nearly 400 people attended.

Nobody thinks this is a good idea.

And why?

I mean, is it is it people, they just don't want it near them?

What are the what are the reasons people were citing in that meeting?

What were the main objections?

It's it's interesting because this is a campaign that's appealing to a wide range of people from young, old, right across the political spectrum.

There are environmental reasons, people are very concerned about the amount of water they use, about the noise, about the size.

I mean, in the landscape, we're talking about 4 or 5 buildings, 40m, 130 foot tall, on top of a hill.

The impact on the landscape, on the countryside is shocking.

And, you know, North Devon is not as the saving as anything to do with AI.

growth.

You can't understand why anyone go through.

We need to think about all the answers about what they're proposing.

We need to be granted here, not before.

Thank you.

Rachel's in Edinburgh.

Hi, Rachel.

Hi there.

Data centre's near you?

Yes, we have two planned for the kind of outskirts of Edinburgh.

Okay, and how's that going down?

Not very well.

There's one of them that's slightly further along the pipeline that was rejected in February by the council.

And the company appealed and now the government's mandated they need to come back with an EIA.

Yeah.

What about, you know, just just the plain argument that we need them.

If you want to be able to stream your favorite show on a Friday night, do a bit of online banking, all the things that we do every day, we need these things.

I'm so glad you asked me that, because that's the main point I want to make, which is that even in Scottish Parliament where they debated this issue yesterday, where there was a protest outside Holyrood, hundreds of people came, A lot of people seem to make this argument that we need these hyperscale centers.

The life that we live, which I agree with you is completely online, is already accommodated for by much smaller data centers and we have hundreds of them in the UK already.

Hyperscale centers are a completely different beast and they're built as speculative and proposals in the planning system to deal with anticipated future demand, mostly for artificial.

I was going to say, yeah, is it the so called, you know, the AI gold rush?

Yes.

Yeah.

And that's even even there is a various politicians that mentioned that in the debate yesterday.

It's speculative.

And AI companies are highly leveraged.

We don't know what the economic benefits will be, if any.

And I think politicians don't seem to show kind of critical thinking.

I think they're being swallowed lines said to them by developers and not questioning what do we need these centres for that we aren't needing them right now already to accommodate the lifestyle that we have.

Thank you for your point of view.

Rachel Angelou is in Stoke.

Hi Angelou.

Are you all right?

Are these all bad?

And I'm not hearing much for them at the moment.

Well, I believe we do need data centers.

It builds jobs the way I see it.

You need construction workers to build them.

Yeah.

Then you need high level educated jobs to continue continue running them really.

Yeah.

I think the younger generation would need these.

There's just not much opportunity.

I don't think we should be saying no to opportunity from these hyper large companies like Google, I'm not sure about any other, but.

Okay.

I think we should be saying no to these.

All right, good night.

Thank you.

Adam's in ready.

Hi, Adam.

Hi, Neil.

Data centers.

your view?

I think they're a vital part of modern UK digital infrastructure.

Data replication in modern times is unprecedented.

I think there's a scatter about this.

What does that mean?

So 15 years ago the staff was that data was replicated in ten minutes.

So more data was replicated in ten minutes than had been replicated from the beginning of time.

And that has just grown exponentially.

So if we don't build the critical infrastructure to capture this data and be able to process it, I think we risk falling behind other countries.

And the other point was made by your guest was that we risk our own digital security with offshoring data.

Okay, Adam, thank you.

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They're already more.

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