Council Backed Devon AI Datacentre Before It Went Public

Council backed Devon AI datacentre before it went public

A council in north Devon backed a huge AI datacentre plan more than a year before the public knew about it. The documents were reported by Sandra Laville for the Guardian. Campaigners got the papers through freedom of information requests. They show the developer, Xlinks, had been in private talks with Torridge district council since […] This story continues at The Next Web

Local Residents Protest Massive North Devon Data Centre

Hundreds turn out to protest Xlinks plan to convert 850 acres of farmland in North Devon into AI data centre and energy storage campus Read more →

‘People are standing up and fighting back’: the north Devon revolt against a vast AI datacentre

Plans for one of Europe’s largest AI campuses in a Unesco-designated reserve have sparked a fierce local backlash The datacentre revolt spreading across the US has reached the rolling hills of north Devon in an uprising against a planned hyperscale AI data campus in the middle of a globally…