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A planned hyperscale AI data campus in north Devon has prompted local opposition, The Guardian reports. The project is proposed within a UNESCO-designated biosphere reserve, making the dispute about both AI infrastructure and the landscape that would host it.
Why it mattersThe Guardian’s report describes a local revolt, but the supplied account gives no project name, capacity, timetable or detail of the residents’ objections. The concrete WittyWires connection is the proposed AI campus itself: the argument over where the infrastructure behind AI should go is no longer abstract. A site-specific development deserves attention; the missing particulars mean this is a brief signal, not a case for dressing speculation up as a full report.
Discuss: Should AI data centres be allowed in protected landscapes when they bring investment and computing capacity, or should those places be off limits?
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