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Nine-year-old Demelza May has urged councillors to oppose a proposed hyperscale AI data centre spanning 850 acres of Devon countryside, Farmers Guardian reports.
Why it mattersMay spoke at a Torridge District Council meeting, asking councillors to back local people and businesses rather than an industry she described as “fooled by tech billionaires”. It is a striking intervention in a local planning row, though the available report extract does not establish what the council decided.
Discuss: Should communities have the final say on major AI infrastructure in their area, or should national computing needs carry more weight?
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