‘This is rural. This is country. Leave it as it is’: This planned 600MW data center in London’s green belt has infuriated local residents — and it’s not hard to understand why
- A data center planned to be built in London's green belt has faced opposition from local residents
- The site will occupy more than 200 acres of green space, with the developers calling the site "a sustainable datacentre campus of the future"
- But the site will not meet Net Zero commitments and is projected to have the highest carbon emissions of any planned or operational UK data center
Residents beside a planned data center on the outskirts of London are not happy about the planned development which will see over 200 acres of greenbelt land ceded to developers to be converted into one of Europe’s largest data centers boasting 400,000 square meters of hardware capacity.
Data center developers in the UK have been having a tough time recently, with plans for the world’s second largest data center in Fife, Scotland, seeing widespread opposition, and a 450MW site in North Wales...
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