{"id":24666,"date":"2026-09-02T04:37:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T02:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/02\/why-does-everyone-hate-datacentres\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T04:37:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T02:37:44","slug":"why-does-everyone-hate-datacentres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/02\/why-does-everyone-hate-datacentres\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does everyone hate datacentres?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI datacentres are almost universally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jun\/03\/seattle-datacenter-moratorium\">unpopular<\/a>. They are loud, unsightly and drain environmental resources, with most of the profits generated flowing back to the US companies that build them \u2013\u00a0and the statistics against them are piling up.<\/p>\n<p>Guardian reporter Hettie O\u2019Brien visits Brick Lane in east London, where people are trying to resist plans for a 5,200-sq metre datacentre being pushed through by the government, to find out why people hate them so much<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/video\/2026\/sep\/01\/why-does-everyone-hate-datacentres\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7240bd803850d107cd69cd3fb09ca5dcd9471ad1\/0_673_1080_864\/master\/1080.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=71d5d80e0dfad292506ec24dde90f1e3\" title=\"Why does everyone hate datacentres?\" \/>AI datacentres are almost universally unpopular. They are loud, unsightly and drain environmental resources, with most of the profits generated flowing back to the US companies that build them \u2013\u00a0and the statistics against them are piling up.<br \/>\nGuardian reporter Hettie O\u2019Brien visits Brick Lane in east London, where people are trying to resist plans for a 5,200-sq metre datacentre being pushed through by the government, to find out why people hate them so much Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI datacentres are almost universally unpopular. They are loud, unsightly and drain environmental resources, with most of the profits generated flowing back to the US companies that build them \u2013\u00a0and the statistics against them are piling up. Guardian reporter Hettie O\u2019Brien visits Brick Lane in east London, where people are trying to resist plans for &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/02\/why-does-everyone-hate-datacentres\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why does everyone hate datacentres?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24666"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}